Body of missing swimmer Chase Froese recovered from Lake Michigan, officials say

Sunday, August 2, 2015
PORTER, Ind. -- Indiana state officials say they have recovered the body of a 20-year-old Illinois woman who disappeared while swimming in Lake Michigan.

The Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana reports that the body of Chase Froese of Carol Stream, about 30 miles west of Chicago, was found Sunday.
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She had gone missing since Friday evening after swimming with two friends at Porter Beach. Nearby beachgoers rescued the other two swimmers, who were also from Illinois.

Froese was a student at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a 2013 graduate of Wheaton Academy, a private Christian high school in West Chicago.
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