{"id":499480,"date":"2026-01-07T18:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499480\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:18:11","slug":"crews-battling-fire-in-back-of-the-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499480\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battling fire in Back of the Yards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters are battling a fire in Chicago&#8217;s Back of the Yards neighborhood on Wednesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chicago Fire Department, crews are making progress controlling the fire that broke out in the 5400 block of South Ashland Avenue just before 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Video posted on social media shows flames and heavy smoke billowing from the second floor of the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No injuries and been reported, CFD confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown a this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. CBS News Chicago will continue to provide updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are battling a fire in Chicago&#8217;s Back of the Yards neighborhood on Wednesday morning.\u00a0 According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[32419,960,5025,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-499480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-back-of-the-yards","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115855196547755060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499480","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=499480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}