Nearly 2 years after fire, residents are still displaced from Kenwood high-rise
Residents' finances are stretched to the max, and they are reaching out to say enough has not been done to finalize repairs and get them back into their homes.
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Residents' finances are stretched to the max, and they are reaching out to say enough has not been done to finalize repairs and get them back into their homes.
Damage to the building has been estimated at $1.5 million.
Officials said the quick-spreading fire caused significant damage to 12 units in the building. Shardaa Gray reports.
The fire started on the 15th floor of the Harper Square Cooperative south tower in Kenwood in January 2023, and climbed up 10 stories. As Tara Molina reports, the people who lived in the building remain displaced two years later.
The body was taken by the Lake County, Illinois Coroner's office.
The Lake Zurich Fire Department said it was back at the scene Sunday night and found a body in the debris.
The fire exploded in size northwest of Los Angeles, growing 1,000 acres in just an hour.
Officials said the mother and son were found dead on the second floor of the home.
A mother and her son died in a house fire in suburban Cicero on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 5 a.m. at a home in the 5000 block of West 29th Street.
A mother and her son died in a house fire in suburban Cicero on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out around 5 a.m. at a home in the 5000 block of West 29th Street.
A Chicago firefighter and two other people were injured Sunday night during a response to a large fire in a multi-family unit in Humboldt Park.
Workers were on the scene during the fire, but there were no injuries reported.
The fire raged at the BL Duke Joliet Industrial Scrap Metal Recycling Yard, located on Genstar Lane off Broadway Street.
Around 20 firefighting trucks were used to contain the blaze, authorities said.
Thick plumes of black smoke could be seen for miles. Piles of scrapped items were apparently burning.
One woman was rescued from the home, but three people did not survive.
Three people died and one person was injured after a house fire in north suburban Zion overnight. The fire broke out just before midnight in the 2900 block of Enoch Avenue. Zion Fire Chief Justin Stried said strong winds initially made fighting the fire difficult, and crews spent four hours battling the flames.
Three people died and one person was injured after a house fire in north suburban Zion overnight.
The Lake County Coroner's Office said just after 10 p.m., the Round Lake Police Department and Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District responded to the fire in the 1400 block of Remington Lane.
They all suffered smoke inhalation. Police there say there is no nuclear risk.
Parks with a lot of leaves on the ground—something of which there are many in the fall—can be an issue during red flag warnings.
Jaron Boyd wants answers as to why the house he grew up in was destroyed in a devastating house fire last week.
One man told CBS News Chicago he ran down the street and knocked on people's doors to get them out of their homes.
Several firefighters sprayed the fire and put out the flames quickly.
Information on the cause of the fire was not immediately available.
