News-Star: "Body Found In Sewer Near Uptown Playlot"

Weeks Earlier, Neighborhood Kids Saw Man Climb into Sewer

By LORRAINE SWANSON, Editor

A CSI mystery evolved in Uptown last Tuesday, Oct. 14, when the decomposed body of a man was pulled out of a sewer in the Clarendon Park children's play lot at 4501 N. Clarendon.

The gruesome discovery was made shortly before 10 a.m., when a Chicago Park District crew working on a park winterizing project noticed a manhole cover turned upside down underneath the play lot's cooling sprinklers. The body was removed by Chicago firefighters and taken to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

"It is still an open investigation," said Officer Daniel O'Brien of Chicago Police News Affairs. "The victim is an unknown male."

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