Overview
- Firefighters responding around 10:15 p.m. to the 7000-block of South Bell Avenue found a 75-year-old woman with severe burns who was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and later died.
- A second fire reported about 1:08 a.m. in the 6300-block of South Oakley Avenue spread to three houses before crews brought it under control.
- A 39-year-old woman from the Oakley Avenue incident was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in serious condition.
- Four adults were displaced in the Oakley Avenue fire, and no other injuries were reported at that scene.
- Police and fire officials extinguished both fires and have opened investigations into their causes.