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Body pulled out of 'Playpen' area of Lake Michigan near Chicago's Gold Coast identified

By FOX 32 Digital Staff
Updated  August 20, 2022 9:25pm CDT
Gold Coast
FOX 32 Chicago

CHICAGO - A body was pulled out of Lake Michigan in the so-called "Playpen" area near Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood on Saturday.

Police said the body was removed from the water around 5 p.m. near the 1000 block of North Dusable Lake Shore Drive.

On Sunday morning, Cook County medical examiner's office identified the man as 29-year-old Spencer Williams. 

'Playpen' boating accident severed Chicago woman's feet: 'I knew I would die'

A woman whose feet were severed in a boating accident in the "Playpen" near Oak Street Beach over the weekend says she would have drowned had her husband not pulled her out of the water at the last second.

A man who fell off a boat in the Playpen on Wednesday has been missing; police did not say if the body recovered was the missing man.

Last weekend, a woman's feet were cut off when she was run over by another boater in the Playpen. The same boat cut off another woman's hand.

The Sun Time Media Wire contributed to this report.