George J. Edgar, 58, a Chicago policeman who once saved twoboys from icy Lake Michigan, died Friday of cancer at his Beverlyhome.
In 1974, Mr. Edgar saved two boys who were trapped on an icefloe. One had fallen from the pier at 60th Street and his friendjumped in to save him. The two then clambered onto a floe out ofreach of the pier.
A third boy ran and found Mr. Edgar, who was directing trafficnear the Museum of Science and Industry. The Grand Crossing patrolofficer picked up the crying boy and rushed across busy Lake ShoreDrive to find the endangered boys.
Mr. Edgar found the two boys clinging to the small patch of iceand gingerly plucked them from …
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