Officers responded to a call of a body in the water around 6 a.m. near the 1900-block of North Lake Shore Drive near North Avenue Beach.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsy results are pending.
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CPD Area 3 detectives are investigating.
No other information was available.
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