{"id":475383,"date":"2026-02-18T07:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475383\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T07:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T07:13:15","slug":"south-elgin-news-body-found-in-fox-river-near-100-block-of-north-center-street-village-of-south-elgin-fire-department-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475383\/","title":{"rendered":"South Elgin news: Body found in Fox River near 100-block of North Center Street, village of South Elgin Fire Department says"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 18, 2026 4:28AM<\/p>\n

\"Body<\/p>\n

SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) — An investigation is underway after a body was found in a west suburban river on Tuesday, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

The South Elgin Fire Department said the body was found in the Fox River near the 100-block of North Center Street.<\/p>\n

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The person’s identity was not immediately released. It was not immediately clear how they ended up in the water or how long they had been there.<\/p>\n

Police are now investigating, the fire department told ABC7.<\/p>\n

Authorities did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Wednesday, February 18, 2026 4:28AM SOUTH ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) — An investigation is underway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[220194,25201,4,450,220189,220191,220192,220190,29486,220188,451,3,220183,220187,220184,220186,220185,452,453,220193],"class_list":{"0":"post-475383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-220194","9":"tag-body-found","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-elgin-fire","13":"tag-elgin-il","14":"tag-elgin-illinois","15":"tag-elgin-news","16":"tag-fire-department","17":"tag-fox-river","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-south-elgin","21":"tag-south-elgin-fire","22":"tag-south-elgin-il","23":"tag-south-elgin-illinois","24":"tag-south-elgin-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-village-of-south-elgin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}