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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 Lake Michigan search is expected to resume Wednesday in Winnetka, Illinois for a man last seen near Elder Lane Beach.

Crews in Winnetka are searching for a 19-year-old man who went missing while swimming Tuesday morning in Lake Michigan.

Luke Laidley, 43, was celebrating the holiday and operating a boat near Elder Beach in Winnetka, IL, when the raft filled with children he was pulling overturned at around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, ABC 7 Chicago reported.

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Luke Laidley, 43, a father-of-three, who survived the 9/11 attacks on his second day on the job at Morgan Stanley drowned while trying to save a group of children on a raft that capsized.

Good afternoon, Chicago. What started as a day of fun on Lake Michigan turned tragic when a man who jumped from a boat to help a group of kids struggling in the water near Elder Lane Beach in Winnetka drowned, authorities said. Winnetka Fire Chief John Ripka said the man, identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Luke Laidley, 43, was in a boat with a group of other people ...