Search Of Lake Michigan For Missing Woman Suspended

CHICAGO, IL — Choppy water forced a marine unit from the Chicago Police Department, as well as rescue workers from the Chicago Fire Department, to suspend a search for a missing woman in Lake Michigan near Montrose Beach on Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports. Helicopters and divers were a part of the search efforts, which began at around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, on the North Side, the report added.

Witnesses told authorities they saw the woman — said to be in her 40s — enter the water from the beach in the 4500 block of North Simonds Drive on Sunday, the report stated. Crews searched until 10:30 p.m. before resuming things Monday morning, the report added. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for Lake View and Chicago — or other neighborhoods. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)

But authorities were forced to suspend the search Monday after the lake became too rough for crews to continue, according to the report.

With the arrival of warmer weather beginning in May, the city's police and fire departments have been handling the seasonal increase in lakefrot emergency calls. On Friday, a dead body was discovered by a Chicago Park District in the sand along the Montrose dog beach in the 500 block of West Montrose Drive.

RELATED: Dead Body Discovered On Montrose Harbor Dog Beach

Earlier in the month, a 23-year-old man and a teenage girl died after rescue crews pulled her from Lake Michigan in separate, unrelated incidents.

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