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The Chicago Fire Football Club broke ground Tuesday on a new training facility in the Roosevelt Square neighborhood.

Neighbors are heartbroken and were seen outside the victim?s home consoling one another. At least two neighbors off camera said the victim remained a heavy smoker, relying on oxygen tanks inside her home after being diagnosed with lung disease. Nate Rodgers reports. https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/home-where-elderly-woman-died-in-fire-in-chicagos-belmont-heights-did-not-have-working-smoke-detectors

An evacuation order affecting more than 1,000 people was expected to remain in place through Wednesday around a large industrial fire in an Indiana city near the Ohio border where crews worked through the night to douse piles of burning plastics, authorities said.

A brush fire was burning north of Gary Wednesday afternoon. SkyFOX was over the area, which is along Industrial Highway.

Fire tore through two neighboring buildings Sunday night, damaging more than 20 residential units and leaving about 50 people displaced.

The Chicago Fire has scored a major goal, receiving HUD approval for their new performance center.

A firefighter suffered minor injuries in Saturday's fire on Hartrey in Evanston. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Crews are battling an extra-alarm fire at a scrap yard Monday morning in south suburban Chicago Heights.

Chicago authorities said six people were taken to hospitals Wednesday as firefighters responded to a high-rise apartment building fire on the city's South Side, battling flames on multiple floors as snow fell.

A massive fire in La Salle sent toxic smoke billowing into the air. The flames were under control as of Wednesday afternoon, but there was still a very active scene.

Residents were told to shelter in place Wednesday morning as emergency crews battled a major fire that broke out at a rural Illinois chemical plant, prompting the plant's evacuation.

Dozens of Chicago firefighters responded to a fire on the South Side on Saturday night. The fire started in an apartment building at 81st and Drexel around 7 p.m. Residents hustled outside and firefighters searched to make sure the building was completely evacuated. No one was hurt. Nate Rodgers reports.

Several buildings caught on fire in downtown Mendota overnight.

A fire is out Monday night after damaging a church in west suburban Maywood.

Just days until Christmas, two West Side families are picking up the pieces after a fire tore through their apartment building.

Former mayoral challenger Ray Lopez want's Chicago's Ethics Board and Inspector General to investigate a campaign contribution to Lori Lightfoot.