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Chicago subway fire injures 12
(CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — A fire in Chicago’s subway system Sunday left at least 12 people with smoke-related injuries — five of them in serious condition, according to a fire official. Railroad ties in a tunnel near the city’s Clark Street station caught fire after apparently being ignited by sparks from passing trains, said Larry Langford, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
Gas pipeline explodes; several injured
Watch live video of the fire. (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — An underground natural gas pipeline exploded into flames Monday in Johnson County, Texas, injuring several people, a fire official said.
Building collapses on South Side
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — At least part” of a vacant building collapsed Wednesday morning one day after materials, possibly brick, fell from it and the city’s Department of Buildings had to be called, according to the Chicago Fire Department. At 8:27 a.m.
Woman Assaulted On West Side With Liquid
CHICAGO (CBS) — A North Austin neighborhood woman is hospitalized with serious burns after a group of men attacked her – throwing acid in her face. CBS 2′s Pamela Jones reports, the incident allegedly started with basketball.
Ammo goes off in fatal fire
WAUKEGAN, Ill. (WBBM/CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Waukegan police are trying to figure why there were hundreds of rounds of ammunition in a house that went up in flames this morning. Firefighters arrived to hear explosions as those rounds went off, WBBM’s Regine Schlesinger reports. One person was killed in the extra-alarm fire that destroyed the two-story brick home at 422 Julian St.
Man found shot to death in vehicle on South Side
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — A man was found fatally shot inside a vehicle that crashed into a building and burst into flames Tuesday night in the South Side Chicago Lawn neighborhood. Police responded to calls of shots fired about 9:10 p.m.
Arson suspected in suburban fire
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (WBBM) — Rolling Meadows police are investigating the possibility that Sunday morning’s apartment building fire on the 4700 block of Arbor Drive was deliberately set. “It is suspicious,” Rolling Meadows police Sgt.
Police: Man falls to death from Marina Tower
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — A man reportedly fell to his death Wednesday morning from one of the Marina City Towers in the River North area. The Chicago Fire Department was notified at 9:48 a.m.
No-name terrorists now CIA drone targets
( WIRED ) — Once upon a time, the CIA had to know a militant’s name before putting him up for a robotic targeted killing. Now, if the guy acts like a guerrilla, it’s enough to call in a drone strike.
3 dead as Greek strike grows violent
Athens, Greece (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — Police sirens and the smell of tear gas filled the streets around Greece’s parliament building Wednesday after protests against government spending cuts turned violent, then deadly. Three people died and four others were trapped when a fire bomb hit a bank in central Athens, the Greek fire brigade told CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM.