Elder Beach News Today

The Winnetka Park District Board has decided not to pursue an intergovernmental agreement with the village saying the optics would appear less transparent than going through the entire special use permitting process. Commissioners considered the idea during the March 7 committee of the whole meeting. Executive Director Shannon Nazzal read a memo from a March 4 meeting with village ...

The Winnetka Park District is soldiering on with plans to rebuild Elder Lane and Centennial beaches after a lawsuit by resident Rob Schriesheim was dismissed by a Cook County judge. The lawsuit, which alleged the proposed land swap between the Park District and billionaire future resident Justin Ishbia is in violation of the public trust doctrine, was dismissed by Cook County Circuit Judge Eve ...

The Winnetka Park District Board voted unanimously on Aug. 17 to increase security measures and add signage at the entrances to Elder Lane Beach to ensure people aren’t entering the closed beach. Elder Lane Beach has been closed for nearly four years due to unsafe conditions including exposed wire mesh used to retain the bluffs and prevent erosion. Superintendent of Parks Costa Kutulas told ...

Authorities on Thursday afternoon recovered the body of the teen who went missing after swimming in Lake Michigan in Winnetka earlier this week. The 18-year-old’s body was recovered at Wilmette Harbor around 1:30 p.m. and taken to the Cook County medical examiner’s office to be identified, said Winnetka village spokesperson Josie Clark. The medical examiner’s office later identified the teen ...

The young man did not resurface after jumping into Lake Michigan early Tuesday with others off Winnetka’s Elder Beach.

Authorities have been searching the area around Elder Beach in Winnetka since 7 a.m. Wednesday, but so far, the young man who went missing while swimming in Lake Michigan has not been recovered.

A body recovered from Lake Michigan on Thursday is believed to be the 18-year-old Glendale Heights man who went missing earlier in the week during an early morning swim with friends in Winnetka.

As of 9 a.m., the missing swimmer had not yet been found.

No one had been found after hours of looking by emergency crews.

Luke Laidley was rushed to hospital on Tuesday afternoon after being pulled from the waters of Lake Michigan but he later died in a Chicago-area hospital