Boy, 7, drowns in retention pond in Chicago suburb

Foul play is not suspected in the death of a missing 7-year-old boy pulled from a retention pond Wednesday evening, police in northwest Lake in the Hills said.

Officers responded shortly before 6 p.m. to a report of a missing child in the 300 block of Steeplechase Way, according to the Village of Lake in the Hills Police Department. Family members told police they had seen the child a short time earlier.

While searching for the child, an officer found the boy unresponsive in a nearby retention pond, pulled the child from the water and began life-saving efforts, police said…

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