Woman found slain in Cal-Sag channel

Illinois State Police hope to identify today a woman whose boundbody was discovered Sunday in the Cal-Sag Channel, officials said.

The body was discovered early Sunday by a Coast Guardcruiser between the 127th Street and Cicero Avenue bridges, officialssaid.

They said her hands and feet had been bound, and, based on amedical examiner's report, they think she was alive when she wasthrown into the water. She had been struck on the head with a bluntinstrument, officials said.