Chicago police said the Chicago Fire Department recovered the body at about 3 a.m. Saturday in the 200-block of North Lakefront Trail at Monroe Harbor.
The man was pronounced dead on the scene. His identity has not yet been released.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the man's death a homicide on Sunday. How he died was not immediately clear.
Further information was not immediately available.
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