{"id":409384,"date":"2025-11-27T23:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T23:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T23:29:14","slug":"south-side-church-collapses-after-catching-fire-on-thanksgiving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/409384\/","title":{"rendered":"South Side church collapses after catching fire on Thanksgiving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Fire Department crews battled a roaring fire at a church Thursday afternoon on the city&#8217;s South Side.<\/p>\n<p>Crews battled the 2-11 fire at the Renewal Life Church just before 2 p.m. in the 5800 block of South Emerald Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Thick smoke was seen billowing from the building as flames intensified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/processed-72becbd6-0791-4679-adb7-9a71c3a9ead1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"processed-72becbd6-0791-4679-adb7-9a71c3a9ead1.jpg \" height=\"1102\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/processed-1878886d-48c0-4eb5-82fe-b57109ff3602.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Englewood church fire \" height=\"1102\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>Moments into the fire, CBS Chicago photographer Alfredo Roman caught the entire building as it collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>It was said that the church was in the process of rebuilding to create a separate sanctuary in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire Department crews battled a roaring fire at a church Thursday afternoon on the city&#8217;s South Side.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":409385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,30573,28442,5025,5386,1818,13561],"class_list":{"0":"post-409384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-englewood","11":"tag-fire","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-south-side"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115624265125539235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409384","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=409384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}