First responders are looking for two men who went off a boat on Lake Michigan near Hammond on Friday afternoon. Three people are believed to have gotten in the water, but one was rescued. The other two have not yet been found. Others who had been on the boat at the time made it back to shore safely.
The two men had been on a boat with ten other people, including adults and juveniles, about two and a half miles off Whiting on Lake Michigan at around 2:30 p.m. when one of the men jumped off the boat to swim. a third man in a life-jacket tried to help the first and he was later found by rescuers in a boat.
One of the missing men is from Elk Grove Village, and the other is from Mount Prospect.