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A body washed up on the shore of Lake Michigan on Friday morning, Chicago police said.

Police were notified about 8:45 a.m. of a body in the 1800 block of North Lake Shore Drive, said Officer Bari Lemmon, a police spokeswoman.

Preliminary reports said the victim is male, Lemmon said, but no other information was available pending autopsy results from the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Body removal workers pull a person's body past beachgoers June 17, 2016, after it was found at North Avenue Beach in Chicago.
Body removal workers pull a person’s body past beachgoers June 17, 2016, after it was found at North Avenue Beach in Chicago.