Crime & Safety
McKinley Park Lagoon Drained to Search for Human Remains
Police divers searched the water Tuesday after a bag with a severed head was found last week.
CHICAGO, IL — The lagoon at McKinley Park was drained Tuesday after a city worker found a bag containing a severed head in the water last week, the Chicago Tribune reports. The draining was done so that Chicago police can see whether other human remains were still in the lagoon, the report added.
A Chicago Park District worker called police to the lagoon, 2210 W. Pershinig Road, at around 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23, after pulling a bag with a human head inside it from the water. A crew from the park district was giving the lagoon its weekly cleaning at the time.
On Tuesday, a container filled with ashes was pulled from the lagoon by police divers, the Tribune reports. It was not know if the ashes were human, the report added. Police are not yet connecting the discovery of the ashes with last week's discovery of the head, according to the report.
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Divers will continue to do "grid searches" of the lagoon, the report stated. The head is being analyzed by the Cook County medical examiner's office to determine the victim's identity, the report added.
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