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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 56-year old woman is in serious condition after being burned in a house fire Saturday afternoon, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The fire occurred happened shortly after 4 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)--A man was found dead in a house fire in the Lawndale neighborhood in the early morning hours Monday. Fire crews responded to the house fire at 3927 W. Fillmore St., near and Pulaski ...

LAWNDALE (CBSLA.com) — Fire officials say six cats and two birds were killed early Tuesday morning in a South Bay house fire. The fire was reported around 3:20 a.m. in the 4200 block of 167 th Street ...

A sting operation at a Lawndale house to catch unlicensed contractors advertising in the South Bay cited nine men, including two registered sex offenders convicted of crimes against children, state ...

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Uli Mau’u, on another busy Monday afternoon at the House of Yahweh, hauled another heavy box, loaded with food, up to the counter. Several dozen recipients were lined up at the Lawndale nonprofit to ...

Mayor Emanuel and Alderman Pat Dowell tour the completed Third Ward Parade of Homes in Bronzeville in December. Mayor Rahm Emanuel / Twitter Chicago city planners are hoping to continue the success of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Firefighters responded to a blaze at a home on Chicago's Southwest Side. Flames broke out at a three-story building near South Troy and West 19th streets in the city's Lawndale ...

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CHICAGO — When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved his family to Chicago to fight for fair housing, he spent a lot of his time at Stone Temple Baptist Church. Stone Temple Baptist is one several ...

Three decades after he bought one of the first houses built in a North Lawndale revitalization effort, Kevin Sutton is now leading construction of the latest round, 11 houses on scattered vacant lots.