Around 8 p.m. three men, two aged 26 and the other 28, where swimming to the Beach State Park shore to a rock wall, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
While swimming, one of the 26-year-old men went under the water and did not come back up.
Around 8:10 p.m., Beach Park Fire Department began searching for the missing swimmer with the help from authorities from nearby towns.
After a two-hour search, authorities pulled the 26-year-old man out of the water. The sheriff's office said he was about 30 feet from the shore.
The swimmer was taken to a hospital in Waukegan, where he died, the sheriff's office said.
The man was idenfied as Akshith Reddy Bhandra of New York.
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