LaSalle County Coroner Rich Ploch says as of right now the body found in the Illinois River and the missing persons case of Jelani Day are separate from each other.
Ploch says an autopsy has been done on the body found in the Illinois River this past Saturday, and it is a man.
But Ploch says it could take several weeks to possibly months to find out the identity of the body.
He says right now the case is still under investigation.
Day’s car was found in a wooded area in Peru but he wasn’t in the car.