Man, 70, hospitalized after being pulled from Montrose Harbor 2%

By Sun-Times Wire5%

7/15/2026, 9:12:13 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service and Negativity Bias, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 26.7% saturation with 16 hits. Analysis detected 37 faulty-reasoning hits from 60 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.8% and a BS Rank of 2% (21,635 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.80% of the article peer group.

A man was hospitalized after being pulled from Lake Michigan Wednesday afternoon, according to Chicago police. 
The man, 70, was pulled from the water by people nearby in the 300 block of West Montrose Harbor Drive at 3:58 p.m., police said. 
He was taken to St. 
Joseph Hospital in critical condition. 
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60 words analyzed.

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1speaker68%attributed speech19writer words
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Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageChicago police • 16 words • 100.0% coverageChicago police • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverage
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Chicago police

39%flagged-word coverage
41 attributed words100% of attributed speech26% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Unattributed Quote+39.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Chicago police: 39.0%39.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +39.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Chicago police: 39.0%39.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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