Four people took a canoe out into a back water channel of the Kankakee River behind the VanDuyne Motel in Wilmington.  The victim was sitting third from the front, down in the canoe.  The victim was highly intoxicated and leaned too far to the right causing the canoe to capsize.  All the occupants fell overboard into the water as the canoe became swamped.  All four people in the canoe were wearing type II life jackets.  The operator and other two occupants held onto the canoe as they were helped back to shore by the witness.  The victim swam back to shore on her own.  The operator and two occupants walked back to there rooms while the victum was crawling to shore along the mucky bottom.  When occupant 2 came to look for victim she found her laying face down in the water next to the swamped canoe, approxmatley six feet from shore.  Victim was revived with CPR and transported to the hospital.
Wilmington, IL                