Body of man pulled from Lake Michigan at 31st Street Beach

Emergency crews responded to a call of a person in distress in the water in the 700 block of East 31st Street around 9:30 p.m., police said.

The body of a man was pulled from Lake Michigan at the 31st Street Beach Tuesday night.

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Emergency crews responded to a call of a person in distress in the water in the 700 block of East 31st Street around 9:30 p.m., police said.

They recovered the body of Hayward Brown, 34, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead. Autopsy results remained pending further testing.

Chicago police said they were conducting an investigation.

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