{"id":365237,"date":"2025-11-08T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365237\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:53:12","slug":"washington-park-chicago-fire-today-woman-found-dead-in-burning-home-in-5300-block-of-south-calumet-avenue-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/365237\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Park, Chicago fire today: Woman found dead in burning home in 5300-block of South Calumet Avenue, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:16PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Woman found dead inside burning South Side home: CPD\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A woman was found dead in a Washington Park fire in the 5300-block of South Calumet Avenue on Saturday morning, the Chicago Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A woman was found dead inside a burning South Side home on Saturday morning, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded to a call about an apartment fire in the Washington Park neighborhood&#8217;s 5300-block of South Calumet Avenue just after 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chicago Fire Department firefighters extinguished the fire, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">First responders found an unresponsive woman, who was pronounced dead on the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives are conducting a death investigation, and autopsy results are pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">What caused the fire was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, November 8, 2025 2:16PM A woman was found dead in a Washington Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":365238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[176800,960,5463,11222,46098,5462,20781,105327,5386,1818,63577,100027,176799],"class_list":{"0":"post-365237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-176800","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-breaking-news","11":"tag-chicago-fire","12":"tag-chicago-fire-department","13":"tag-chicago-news","14":"tag-fire-department","15":"tag-fire-today","16":"tag-il","17":"tag-illinois","18":"tag-washington-park","19":"tag-washington-park-chicago","20":"tag-washington-park-fire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115515831852046000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}