Crime & Safety
Evergreen Park Man Pulled from Lake Was a 'Driven' Academic
Michael Evans says his son was an easygoing, driven student with dreams of success.
The father of a 25 year-old Evergreen Park man who's body was pulled from Belmont Harbor last week said his son showed no signs of mental illness prior to his accident.
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“He was always easygoing and laid-back,” Michael Evans said.
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Evans' son, Christopher, was last seen around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 30 leaving Roscoe’s Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted St., in Lake View’s Boystown neighborhood. Prior to his abrupt departure, he reportedly told his friends “something bad was going to happen,” according to the Sun-Times Media. On July 4, his body was recovered from Belmont Harbor around 9 a.m. An autopsy yielded inconclusive results, prompting further study.
Evans was enrolled part-time in an MBA program at Loyola University, where he also worked. He was ultimately planning on getting his doctorate from the University of Illinois.
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“He was … driven and a person who had a good idea of what he wanted to do,” Michael Evans said of his son in a Sun-Times report. “He would pursue an academic life some way, somehow."
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