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Body Pulled From Lake Michigan

Updated 02/02/11 - 1:09 p.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago police divers pulled a 60-year-old man's body from the icy waters of Lake Michigan Wednesday morning, after an extensive search that started Tuesday night.

Police late Tuesday night got a call of a person who had possibly fallen in the water, police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said. The police Marine Unit responded at approximately 11:45 p.m. to the scene, which is near Diversey Harbor, but they didn't have a specific location of where the body was and did not immediately find the body.

A Marine Unit boat remained in the water in that area overnight, Perez said, with at least one officer continuing to search the water for the body. About 4:30 a.m. the Marine Unit officers were devising a dive plan, when one of them spotted a hat near a dock, Perez said. They then dove in and pulled the body of the man, who was deceased, out of the water, Perez said.

An ID was found on the man's body, Perez said, though the police were not releasing his identity as of Wednesday morning. The circumstances of how the man wound up in the water were unknown as of Wednesday morning, Perez said. A spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said Wednesday morning the office was notified of a body pulled from the water but they had no additional information on the man.

A Town Hall District police lieutenant said the man may have fallen into the water, possibly after becoming disoriented.

There was a report that another person may have been in the water, as well, according to the lieutenant.

Belmont Area detectives are investigating.

(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)

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