CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Three youths from Chicago drowned Friday in the Fox River in Algonquin, Ill., after one of their paddle boats sank, officials said.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the paddle boat's bottom plug had been removed for the winter.
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The newspaper said it took about nine hours to recover the bodies of Jimmie Avant, 18, Melvin Choice III, 17, and Adrian Jones, 16, from the fast moving river.
The teens were students at North Lawndale College Prep, a charter high school. They were on the last day of an eight-day leadership retreat at Camp Algonquin, said Julie Didier, a spokeswoman for the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District.
