ANTIOCH, Ill. (AP) – Authorities say a 73-year-old northern Illinois man is hospitalized in critical condition after being rescued from a Fox River channel. Lake County sheriff’s deputies say the rural Antioch man fell into the channel while trying to retrieve a fishing line Friday afternoon. Deputies tell the Arlington Heights Daily Herald that one of the rescuers, a 74-year-old man from Winthrop Harbor, was fishing with the victim in a small boat when the incident occurred. One of the men got his fishing line tangled in the weeds, and deputies say the victim tried to retrieve the line but fell into the cold water and was submerged for one to two minutes.
