Logan Square Furniture Store To Be Torn Down After Extra-Alarm Blaze
The fire started around 7:30 a.m. at Famsa Furniture at 2945 N. Milwaukee Av., and burned for more than three hours before it was out.
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The fire started around 7:30 a.m. at Famsa Furniture at 2945 N. Milwaukee Av., and burned for more than three hours before it was out.
Joliet Police said they were trying to identify two young men seen leaving the shuttered prison shortly after the fire started.
A raging fire at the shuttered Joliet Correctional Center on Monday has renewed questions about what should be done with the site.
The old Joliet prison, closed since the early-2000s, has been used for film projects; perhaps most famously, it was seen at the beginning of "The Blues Brothers" in 1980.
Three children were taken to hospitals, with two in serious-to-critical condition and one in fair-to-serious condition, fire officials said.
Two people were arrested for allegedly starting a fire at Jackson Park Hospital Thursday night on the South Side.
Firefighters rescued a man from a fire in an East Chatham neighborhood apartment building early Friday morning.
Crews responded to the still-and-box alarm at the three-story building in the 1600 block of South Drake.
The building in which the fire originated was "unstable" after the blaze and the city's Department of Buildings was called to the scene.
Eight detainees have been charged with lighting their uniforms on fire last month at the Cook County Jail.
A Chicago firefighter was injured Tuesday morning while helping extinguish a blaze that damaged three apartment buildings in Lincoln Park.
Five families were left homeless Tuesday morning, after an extra-alarm fire heavily damaged three apartment buildings in Albany Park.
Inmates in the super maximum security division at Cook County Jail are caught on tape lighting their uniforms on fire using a microwave.
The detainees were in the jail's super maximum security division, designated for "problematic detainees who engage in sexual misconduct."
Three people were injured when a huge fire, triggered by an explosion, tore through a Far South Side apartment building in the East Side .
Firefighters battled an extra-alarm blaze early Monday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A man in his 70s died after a Northwest Side house fire Friday morning in the Big Oaks neighborhood.
Fire crews responded to a fire Thursday morning at a 3-story apartment building in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side.
A small fire broke out about 7:25 p.m. in a locker room on the lower level of the police station, according to a statement from Burbank police.
Nearly a dozen suburbs sent firefighters to a South Elgin daycare center early Wednesday morning, to help extinguish an extra-alarm blaze.
Amanda Zelko was beaten with a hammer, and the Joliet home she was in was set on fire. On Tuesday, her mother got to thank the man she calls a hero.
The fire tore through a multi-family home in the 500 block of Park Avenue shortly before 2:30 p.m.
Two Good Samaritans likely saved a woman's life Saturday afternoon after she was allegedly burned and beaten by her fiancé's brother.
Crews from 15 different fire departments responded and rescued people from their balconies. One person was transported to a local hospital.
A fire at a west suburban Aurora home left four people displaced Sunday night and caused an estimated $25,000 in damages.
