Bridgeport Fire Leaves Three Homeless
Officials say the fire began in a building that was under construction before spreading to multiple properties.
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Officials say the fire began in a building that was under construction before spreading to multiple properties.
The fire started around 2:45 a.m. at a home on the 11200 block of Wildridge Street.
Emergency crews responding to the fire found 50-year-old Rodger W. Grady just before 9 p.m. in the kitchen of a single-story bungalow in the 4500 block of North Laporte, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.
It happened in Hyde Park near 55th and Cornell just before five a.m.
A body was found in a clothing donation box that had caught fire Thursday morning in the Uptown neighborhood on the North Side.
Firefighters responded to the blaze shortly before 5 a.m. at the apartment building in the 5400 block of South Cornell, said Chicago Fire Department Deputy District Chief Michael Del Greco.
The Chicago Fire Department responded to a two-alarm fire Friday night in the South Chicago neighborhood on the Southeast side.
A child was among four people injured in an extra-alarm blaze early Thursday in an Albany Park neighborhood apartment building on the Northwest Side.
Chicago firefighters had to cut through a metal fence to get to the structures near 70th and Union to get close to two abandoned houses.
Emergency crews were called at 2:18 a.m. about the fire at a building in the 6800 block of South Normal, according to Chicago Fire Department Chief Juan Hernandez. The fire was put out a short time later.
The fire was caused by a malfunctioning heater unit and appears to have been accidental, according to the fire department.
Employees were evacuated from a Southwest Airlines facility Wednesday morning at Midway International Airport, after a fire in the boiler room.
Firefighters responded to the blaze on the 200 block of North Miami Drive in Dixon shortly after midnight, and found the house fully engulfed.
Firefighters responded about midnight to the two-story building with fire on the second floor in the 5200 block of West Quincy.
One person was killed after a fire tore through an apartment building Sunday in Northwest suburban Bensenville.
The fire started around 5:50 a.m. on the back porch of a three-story abandoned building near 18th and Hamlin, according to the Fire Department.
Crews responded to the fire at 5:25 a.m. at the home in the 2S700 block of Avenue LaTours W in unincorporated Oak Brook, according to the DuPage County sheriff's office.
According to the Chicago Fire Department, the fire started in the cooling tower on the roof at the Blommer factory, at Kinzie and Jefferson.
Crews responded at 2:35 p.m. to the blaze on the second floor of a home in the 1500 block of South Central Park, according to Fire Media Affairs.
Authorities found Otis Bloodsaw about 3:35 a.m. inside a home that had been on fire in the 300 block of South Chicago Street in Joliet.
The man was trapped inside a house in the 700 block of East Grant Highway, when emergency crews received the first calls about a fire around 10:15 p.m.
The fire started around 10:30 p.m. on the top floor of a three-story building near Milwaukee Avenue and Huron Street.
A small fire at the Blommer Chocolate Company forced workers to evacuate the plant on Friday.
The fire started around 2:30 a.m. at a house in the 5100 block of West 29th Street, according to the Cicero Fire Department.
Crews are working in the southwest suburbs to flush the sanitary sewer system where gasoline spilled Friday, causing several explosions.
