Three Hurt In Lawndale Fire
Three people were hurt -- one critically -- in a fire in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood early Saturday.
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Three people were hurt -- one critically -- in a fire in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood early Saturday.
A white supremacist who burned down a black family's southwest suburban home in a racist attack was told by a judge on Monday to be thankful for the black lawyer who defended him, the Sun-Times is reporting.
The Chicago Fire Department says two men were critically burned as they worked on a car this afternoon in the Beverly neighborhood.
Fast and furious. That's how people described the storm that ripped through the area - taking down trees and sparking a fire in Schererville, Indiana.
A woman has been arrested for drunk driving, after she escaped serious injury when her car burst into flames following a crash on the Eisenhower Expressway overnight.
The fire broke out in the one-and–a-half story home in the 4100 block of West Gladys Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood about 4 a.m.
It took at least two hours to contain the flames. No one was injured – small consolation to the family that ran the grocery store.
A man was arrested after firefighters discovered him on boat that was set on fire Friday.
A fire at a senior citizen high-rise in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood left an elderly woman critically injured Friday afternoon.
The 2-11 alarm fire occurred at a 3-story apartment building at 1433 S. Kenneth Ave. about 5:45 a.m.
An autopsy Monday determined a person whose charred body was found in a dumpster Sunday night in the Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood was strangled.
Two people, both believed to be in their 50s, were killed in the blaze in the 200 block of East 24th Street in Chicago Heights.
A Hickory Hills police officer is being hailed as a hero for rescuing the owners of a popular banquet hall after fire erupted about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, said Walter Sherman, battalion chief for the Roberts Park Fire Protection District in Justice.
54-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son are out of the hospital after being rescued from a fire that engulfed their Lawndale apartment. WBBM's Bob Roberts spoke with some of those affected and one of their rescuers:
The seventh-grade student knew her friends weren't joking about her hair being on fire when they slapped her on the head as she began to smell smoke, said Park City 14-year-old Tatyana Butler.
Myron Freedman died Wednesday at the age of 95. A short time later, a fire broke out in the storeroom of Myron & Phil's, the steakhouse and seafood restaurant he and his brother founded 43 years ago.
There was a large amount of smoke and fire pouring from the attic space and roof of the first building, and part of the roof collapsed during the blaze.
A house in Crystal Lake was completely destroyed in a fire Wednesday afternoon, and two firefighters suffered heat-related injuries while fighting the blaze, which spread to four neighboring homes.
Firefighters from several fire departments are battling the extra-alarm fire in a large home in a sub-division at Wadsworth Road and Oak Crest Lane.
An extra-alarm blaze broke out early Monday afternoon in the South Side Park Manor neighborhood.
In McCook, work crews began the job of shoring up a fire-damaged factory after an explosion last night tore through a metals grinding plant, reports CBS 2's Derrick Blakley.
A man in his 60s has died, from injuries suffered in a fire in north suburban Evanston.
Police are investigating the death of a northwest suburban Crystal Lake man who died after a fire in his home Sunday morning.
Four firefighters were injured inside a burning building where a stairway collapsed in the South Side South Chicago neighborhood during a 2-11 fire Saturday morning.
There's going to be an investigation into a fire that destroyed trucks overnight in the southwest suburbs.
