Police: Man, 59, found dead with bodily trauma in Grand Crossing

Authorities were conducting a homicide investigation following the discovery of a 59-year-old man’s body on a Grand Crossing neighborhood street with cuts and trauma to his face early Thursday morning, Chicago police said.

The victim, whose identity hadn’t been released, was found in the 300 block of West 76th Street with lacerations and trauma to his face shortly before 5:15 a.m., police said. He was taken to UChicago Medicine, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.

Wentworth Area detectives were still digging into the circumstances surrounding his death. No one was in custody, according to police.