Overview
- The Chicago Fire Department’s Marine Unit recovered the body near the 2700 block of South Ashland Avenue on the Southwest Side.
- Authorities said the incident was reported around 1:19 p.m. Thursday, and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
- The location sits where the South Branch meets the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal and splits toward Bubbly Creek.
- Chicago police have not released the woman’s identity, and her age was not immediately known.
- Detectives are investigating the circumstances of the death, with results of the autopsy still forthcoming.