Overview
- Cook County Sheriff's deputies responded around 10:50 a.m. Monday to the area of Linda and Holly Lanes in unincorporated Maine Township near Des Plaines and recovered a deceased male from a retention pond by an Illinois State Police building.
- The body was transported to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office, where officials are working to confirm the person's identity.
- Sheriff's investigators said they have found no immediate evidence of foul play in the death.
- Detectives asked anyone with information to call the Cook County Sheriff's Office tip line at 708-865-4896.
- Early fire department accounts described a decomposed body with age and gender unclear, while police later said the recovered person was male.