A child is dead and four other people are hurt after a car crash on I-57 near 107th Street in Morgan Park, Chicago, officials said.
CHICAGO (WLS) — A child is dead and at least four other people are injured after a South Side crash on Interstate 57 on Monday evening, officials said.
Illinois State Police said the one-car rollover crash happened near 107th Street in the city’s Morgan Park neighborhood just after 7:15 p.m.
A child, who was a passenger in the car, has been pronounced dead, ISP said.
At least two other children were transported to Comer Children’s Hospital, the Chicago Fire Department said.
Two adults were transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition.
The Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications said I-57 inbound traffic has been condensed to one lane as officers investigate the crash.
CHICAGO (WLS) — A massive fire in Pilsen that spread to several homes remains under investigation Thursday.
No one was injured in the massive fire, but the cause is still under investigation.
The fire broke out at a home in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood at around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the 1300 block of West 16th Street.
Fire officials said the fire originated in a home that was under renovation before the flames spread quickly from one building to two others within minutes, causing some damage.
One day you’re fine, and then the next day you just lose everything
Vannessa Garcia, displaced resident
What was once a home being rehabilitated is now a crater-sized pit of burned debris.
The home’s owner said a contractor was in the process of fireproofing the property at the time of the fire.
“It is what it is, there’s nothing I can do about it,” building owner Hafeez Shaka said. “I was really looking forward to making it a home.”
Firefighters were able to get neighbors out of nearby homes safely before putting the fire out around 9:45 p.m. No one was injured.
CFD said nearly 100 firefighters and 30 pieces of equipment worked to fight that fire.
The fire left multiple people displaced.
Vannessa Garcia stood in front of her apartment Thursday evening, showing ABC7 the damage to her home that she can no longer return to.
“You could hear someone knocking, telling us to get out of the apartment,” Garcia said. “Our building kind of collapsed in a little.”
Garcia raced outside with her 4-year-old cat, Shadow, and she was barely able to see through the thick smoke.
You couldn’t even see it,” Garcia said. It was covered, like, the smoke was just spreading so fast. It was really windy.”
From several vantage points in Pilsen, cameras captured the sight of the large flames.
A photo showed what the home looked like before the fire, and work was being done to it hours before the fire broke out.
“The city inspector said you have to fireproof that side, so we did that,” said Michael Kevorkian, Shaka’s home contractor. “We were going to be done with it… then now this happened.”
Water now covers the floors in Garcia’s basement unit. Her furniture and belongings were all soaked and damaged by smoke.
“Just feeling a little helpless, lost, confused,” Garcia said. “You know, one day you’re fine, and then the next day you just lose everything.”
Garcia and her neighbors are now raising funds to help with housing.
A shooting near a high school on Chicago’s Lower West Side left two people dead and two others injured Friday afternoon, police said.
In a news conference, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown said that a suspect has not yet been identified for the shooting outside Benito Juarez High School in the Pilsen neighborhood. However, Brown disclosed that investigators believe the shooting was “a potential gang conflict.” He said an “aggressive” investigation is underway.
The two injured victims were in serious condition, Brown said. He declined to provide any further information about the victims, including age or gender, or whether they were students at the school. However, a Chicago Fire Department spokesperson told CBS Chicago that all four victims were teenagers.
At the scene of where several teens were shot outside Benito Juarez High School in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Dec. 16, 2022.
CBS Chicago
A volunteer crossing guard told CBS Chicago that students had just been dismissed when he heard six to eight gunshots at around 2:30 p.m. local time. The crossing guard said that the school’s principal yelled for students to go back inside.
The high school was placed on lockdown for about an hour, with students sent home at around 3:30 p.m.
“Any crime anywhere in the city is obviously a concern to us, but especially, when they’re near or around schools. Many of our officers are parents, are uncles, are aunts, of young people,” Brown said. “We are always as police officers extremely concerned of the impact that violence might have on school-aged students.”
Brown said that the investigation will involve speaking to survivors of the shooting, along with examining surveillance footage which may have captured the shooting. Pedro Martinez, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, said in the news conference that the school is cooperating fully with the investigation, and providing support to students.
“All of us are trying to find answers,” Martinez said. “I’m very concerned that this happened on our grounds.”
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