What started as a day of fun on Lake Michigan turned tragic on Tuesday when a man who jumped from a boat to help a group of kids struggling in the water near Elder Lane Beach in Winnetka drowned, authorities said.
He said Winnetka firefighter received a 911 call about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday that an unconscious man had been pulled from the lake. He said when rescuers arrived at Elder Beach in the 200 block of Sheridan Road a boat was arriving at the shore with the man onboard and that others in the boat were performing CPR on him.
Freelance reporter Jon Kerr, who previously worked with Pioneer Press, said he met Laidley while Kerr was writing a book about the Carmel High School football team. Laidley was a volunteer coach at the Mundelein school. Former Carmel High School Coach Andy Bitto said he knew Laidley all four years Laidley attended Carmel, including his senior year when Bitto was the head coach.
Laidley later asked Bitto about doing some volunteer coaching at Carmel, which he tied into Laidley’s experience on 9/11.In an interview with Kerr from years prior, Laidley explained he was in the south tower that day — 22 years old on his second day in New York City working at Morgan Stanley offices at the World Trade Center — and had just finished a meeting on the 61st floor. A security guard ran in and began evacuating the building, telling people that a plane had just hit the north tower.
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