CHICAGO (WLS) -- The family of a 60-year-old man is asking the public for help after they said his body was discovered this week in a garbage can on Chicago's South Side.
William Cobb's body was discovered in an alley near 66th and Yale on Monday morning.
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According to the medical examiner, the incident is being investigated by Area Central Detectives as a non-criminal death pending an autopsy report.
Cobb's family does not believe this is a cold-related death.
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They say he had a home and a loving family.
Chicago police could not immediately confirm where the body was found, but the family said that streets and sanitation workers discovered the body.