Naked man rescued from Chicago River near Salesforce Tower


A man who was reportedly naked jumped into the Chicago River near Wacker and Lake, swam to the rocks under the Salesforce Tower, was rescued by the Marine Unit, and is being transported to Northwestern Hospital for evaluation, likely due to a mental health crisis.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 04
03:45
Transcript:
Won't be your only car available squads. How about that? Oh, isn't that nice? All right, well, I need you to go meet 122. They're actually on the first district side, but the guy was recovered out of the river on the 18th district side, the 300 West Wacker. What do we have to do with them? I'm guessing they're probably going to need paper. 122? So a person that jumps into the river is being loaded into Ambulet 65, they're relocate to Northwestern. If 1811 wants to meet them there. Okay. All right. 1811, just go to Northwestern. Ambulon 65 is going to be heading to Northwestern. All right, can't do that. 10.4. 1830. 1830 and 1810 for the assist 1810 1810 1890 1899 10 has to cover the desk so we just have 1830 and 20 oh all right well 30 disregard because I can't send you by yourself also 86 is down today in the backlog after roll call. I have a new check to well-being at Lakewood and Clybourne for a 35-year-old male. Wearing a striped tank, top, and shorts on the ground passed out with a six-year-old male next to him. I'm getting a disturbance, a Clark and Belden, a PD accident, Wheat and Kingsbury, a PD accident, 1457 North Hallstead, a disturbance, 150 West Maple. I have he accident 18 Easton, a drug call at 1150 North Clark, an assault in progress that's an hour and five minutes old at Wells and Grand, and Northwestern keeps calling because they're holding a guy for retail theft that was dealing out with the Walgreens in the hospital. His job's spending an 18 in the backlog. 1811. 11. 11. I know that you... just got this call and you have no idea what's going on with it, but because it's downtown and I'm sure everybody's posting on social media, news affairs is already bugging us to have you called them. So as soon as you get some information, please do so. I know you will, but... Yeah, okay. 122, can you call news affairs and just update them and let them know 11 will call them with a formal notification when they get more info? 4. Thanks. And then 1811, just to catch you up a little bit, in about 14.08 hours, we started getting multiple calls of a naked guy in the river. Somewhere in the area of like Wacker and Lake, he ended up swimming over to the 18th district side and was on the rocks. under the Salesforce tower ledge there. The Marine unit responded, took a moment, but they got him out of the water, and now fire's taking him to Northwestern. So I'm going to assume it's probably some sort of mental health issue, but I'm not sure.
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Location mentioned:
Near W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60654
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