Overview
- A West Side apartment fire on the 2200-block of South Keeler sent two residents to the hospital with serious to critical injuries and firefighters extinguished the blaze.
- A basement fire at a Chatham home on the 7900-block of South Eberhart injured two men, one with minor wounds and a 43-year-old man with burns taken to the University of Chicago in serious condition.
- A 47-year-old bicyclist was critically injured after being struck by a gray sedan that police say failed to stop at an intersection; the driver received multiple citations and was not hurt.
- Chicago Fire Department and Chicago Police Department officials say causes of both fires remain under investigation and investigators have not released definitive origin details.
- The cluster of incidents is taxing emergency and hospital resources and could prompt more public tips and routine traffic enforcement as investigators continue their work.