Human Remains Found Near Stevenson Expressway

Updated at 3 p.m.

State police said they are still investigating today after human remains were found near the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and La Grange Road by a telecommunications technician at about 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the department said the technician found skeletal remains on the south side of the expressway in Hodgkins in a grassy area that runs along I-55 behind a fence near La Grange Road.

"They are human [remains], but that's all I can tell you," said Tony Brucci, a spokesman for the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. "We don't know the sex yet."

According to Brucci, an autopsy today was inconclusive and the remains will need to be studied further by a forensic anthropologist. Brucci said it would likely take a few weeks for more information to become available.

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