Homicide investigation underway after body pulled from Lake Michigan at Monroe Harbor: officials

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A homicide investigation is now underway after a man's body was pulled from Lake Michigan near downtown Chicago early Saturday morning.

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.

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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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