Linda Brown, missing Chicago teacher, found dead in Lake Michigan, Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office says

CHICAGO — The body of a Chicago Public Schools teacher who went missing over one week ago was pulled from Lake Michigan on Monday morning, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

The medical examiner said Robert Healy Elementary special education teacher Linda Brown’s body was found in the water in the 3100-block of South Lake Shore Drive on the city’s South Side just before noon.

This comes after Brown’s family spent days searching for her.

Chicago police said Brown was seen on Saturday, Jan. 3 in the Bronzeville neighborhood’s 4500-block of South King Drive, not far from where she lives.

Investigators later found her car near 35th and Lake Park Avenue.

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Chicago police said in a statement on Friday afternoon that a surveillance image had captured Brown in the area of the 3500-block South Lake Park Avenue.

How Brown ended up in the water was not immediately clear.

Her cause of death was not immediately known.

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