Excerpts from the ChicagoSunTimes.com:
On Thursday at about 1:45 p.m. a man fell into the Chicago River near State Street and Wacker Drive. Julie Macholz, a retired Navy pilot who was a lifeguard in high school and college, was walking her dog when she heard a commotion near the State Street bridge. She went over and saw the man bobbing up and down.
Two men jumped a fence and threw life preservers toward the man, but both missed him. Police said a 52-year-old man jumped in to save to the man, but didn’t make it to him.
Macholz then jumped in, grabbed the man as he was going under, and pulled him to the side of the river. When divers arrived, they helped the pair to shore.
The man who fell in the water was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and was listed in critical condition.
