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4 more children and woman from Pilsen migrant shelter are hospitalized

Four girls, ages 1, 4, 8 and 9, and a woman, 18, were hospitalized Monday, a day after a 5-year-old boy died after falling ill at the shelter.

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Dozens injured, including 3 critically, in CTA train crash near Howard Street station

Twenty-three people were taken to hospitals in fair-to-serious condition. The first lawsuit related to the accident has been filed.

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4 Chicago firefighters have died on duty this year, the most in a quarter-century

Four firefighters dying in four separate incidents is ‘very unusual,’ said a fire department spokesman.

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Chicago firefighter Andrew ‘Drew’ Price dies after battling Lincoln Park blaze: ‘A lovely man’ who ‘made the ultimate sacrifice’

Price, 39, was taken Monday morning to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he died. ‘Loved by so many, he will be missed by all,’ said Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt.

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No bail for man accused of luring firefighters into home doused with gasoline

A defense attorney for Melvin Jordan, 47, of the 7700 block of South Marshfield Avenue, requested a mental health evaluation of his client Friday. Jordan is also accused of pulling a knife on the firefighters Tuesday.

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The art of hydrant jerking

Water department workers make sure that when the fire department opens a hydrant, something comes out.

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3 firefighters hospitalized after fire breaks out at Northwest Side home

Just before 4 p.m., firefighters were responding to a call of a fire in the 8300 block of West Balmoral Avenue when an “emergency” occurred.

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Gunman fires at Chicago police on West Side, no reports of injuries

No injuries were reported but the person was refusing to leave the house in the 5400 block of West Walton Street, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.

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Off-duty Michigan police officer wounds 2, including himself, in ‘accidental’ shooting at Hotel Chicago

Just after 3 p.m., paramedics responded to the hotel at 333 N. Dearborn St. and found the 23-year-old officer shot in the hand and a 25-year-old man shot in the abdomen.

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5 suspects in custody in fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Aréanah Preston

Four suspects were apprehended after a Sunday armed standoff at a home in Auburn Gresham, according to a source with knowledge of the arrests. Another suspect was taken into custody separately.

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Police continue search for gunman who killed off-duty officer on South Side

It’s still unclear why police took more than 30 minutes to respond to the wounded officer, Areanah Preston, after gunshots were detected by the city’s gunshot surveillance system, ShotSpotter.

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‘It just doesn’t happen. But today, it did’: Veteran fire lieutenant second to die in as many days following blaze at Chicago high-rise

CHICAGO — A firefighter died Wednesday battling a Gold Coast blaze, marking the Chicago Fire Department’s second line-of-duty death in just two days.

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Chicago firefighter critically injured in high-rise blaze

Three firefighters were injured, one critically, while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago's North Side

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Chicago firefighter dies, 2 others injured in extra-alarm blaze

CHICAGO — A 49-year-old Chicago firefighter died and two others were injured in a predawn extra-alarm blaze where a mayday alert was called at a house in the West Pullman neighborhood, fire officials said.

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Chicago firefighter charged with running prostitution business from his apartment

Brendan A. Kennedy-Gasior, 37, faces a felony count of promoting prostitution and was released from custody after posting $500 bond in the case.

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Chicago firefighter’s wife, 3 kids die following blaze at their home, officials say

CHICAGO — A mother and her three children have all died following a blaze at the home of a Chicago firefighter in the Montclare neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side, officials said Saturday.

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Chicago firefighter’s family remains in ‘extremely critical condition,’ day after 7-year-old son died in NW Side home fire

Firefighter Walter Stewart’s wife and two daughters, 2 and 7, have been unconscious since the fire broke out Tuesday evening in the kitchen of their home in the 2500 block of North Rutherford Avenue, officials said.

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Chicago police officer in ‘very critical’ condition after being shot on Southwest Side

CHICAGO — A Chicago police officer was badly hurt during a shootout with a gunman who was also shot Wednesday evening on the Southwest Side, officials said.

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‘I’m just thinking about her, hoping that she’s OK’ says classmate of girl wounded during deadly shooting at Chicago high school

CHICAGO — Two of four students shot outside Benito Juarez Community Academy high school on the city’s Southwest Side Friday afternoon have died, according to officials.

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1 student dead, 3 others injured outside Chicago high school at dismissal, officials say

CHICAGO — One of four students shot outside Benito Juarez Community Academy high school on the city’s Southwest Side Friday afternoon has died, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

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Chicago police shoot man inside West Side police station, officials say

CHICAGO — Chicago police allegedly shot a man inside the Ogden District police station on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

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Driver fleeing traffic stop hits squad car, leaving officer, couple injured on Northwest Side

An unmarked police car tried to pull over a car near Fullerton and Central when the driver fled and crashed into a marked police car, officials said.

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Suspect and ‘innocent bystander’ wounded in shootout with Chicago police in Pilsen

The shooting happened early Friday after two officers approached a group of masked people outside a store, police said.

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CTA rider stabbed and seriously wounded while fighting off 6 robbers on North Side Red Line, 3 of the attackers also hurt

The attack occurred around 2 a.m. as a man got off a train at the North/Clybourn station and switched to another, police said.

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Firefighters raise L train car to rescue man underneath

The man was talking and alert when paramedics brought him to Stroger Hospital, officials said.

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