Cops: Man Killed 4 In Villa Park, Set Fire, Killed Self In Dolton
A man facing prison for heroin possession fatally shot his girlfriend, her two sons and niece as they slept in the home they shared in unincorporated Villa Park early Tuesday.
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A man facing prison for heroin possession fatally shot his girlfriend, her two sons and niece as they slept in the home they shared in unincorporated Villa Park early Tuesday.
Three people escaped a house fire in northwest suburban Elgin on Sunday.
The death of a 60-year-old man killed in a Saturday morning arson at his Southwest Side apartment has been ruled a homicide.
As flames consumed their home Sunday morning, a Humboldt Park family ran to safety in the frigid morning air. All 13 inside survived thanks to family members who risked their own lives to save others, but the fire left them homeless.
A Saturday morning fire on the Southwest Side that claimed the life of a 60-year-old man was believed to be suspicious and the investigation has been turned over to police, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
Damage could be as much as $2 million from a fire at a boat storage facility in LaSalle County.
After a 32-year-old woman was killed in a fire at a high-rise apartment building in Lakeview, city officials have been trying to figure out how much progress other high rises are making toward installing updated fire safety systems.
A Skokie two-flat that destroyed by an explosion and fire last month may have been set ablaze intentionally.
A fire left a person critically injured overnight in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
City officials said Monday that a door left open by a Lakeview couple fleeing a high-rise fire helped spread the deadly blaze and an elevator malfunction slowed firefighters' ability to get to the fire right away.
One resident was critically injured and others displaced in a fire Saturday morning at their Schaumburg apartment complex.
Nine-year-old twins were recovering Friday morning, after their home caught fire on the city's West Side.
Seventeen people were left homeless Wednesday morning when a fire broke out in a large South Side apartment building.
A man died in a fire in his Rogers Park neighborhood apartment early Wednesday, just one day moved in, according to fire officials.
Two teens have been charged with setting a fire in an historic clock factory in north central Illinois on New Year's Eve.
A firefighter suffered minor injuries, and 15 people were displaced, after a fire in the South Austin neighborhood.
A fire at a massive former clock factory that police say was deliberately lit provided an eerie backdrop for a northern Illinois city's New Year's celebrations, and despite the efforts of firefighters from throughout the area, the city landmark was destroyed.
A massive fire destroyed a one-story building that housed a Chinese restaurant in south suburban Worth on Saturday after bystanders said they heard a loud explosion.
A 65-year-old woman suffered minor injuries in a fire Saturday in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
An extra-alarm fire at a warehouse of a steel drum company in an industrial area in the Southwest Side Bridgeport neighborhood Saturday morning has been extinguished. No one was injured in the blaze.
Eleven people were left out in the cold Thursday morning, after a fire in the Northwest Side's Portage Park neighborhood.
Medical records were needed to identify a 75-year-old man who was killed in a Joliet Township house fire on Christmas morning.
Firefighters worked more than two hours Tuesday night to extinguish an extra-alarm blaze on the West Side.
It's not how anyone wants to celebrate Christmas. Fire gutted the apartments of two Mount Prospect families early this morning. Fortunately, the extra efforts of firefighters and social workers are helping preserve the holiday.
A man died in a fire at a residence in an unincorporated area of Joliet Township Sunday morning.
