{"id":913433,"date":"2026-07-05T04:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T04:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:34:24","slug":"greater-grand-crossing-chicago-fire-today-leaves-seven-hospitalized-near-west-71st-street-and-south-lafayette-avenue-cfd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913433\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Grand Crossing, Chicago fire today leaves seven hospitalized near West 71st Street and South Lafayette Avenue: CFD"},"content":{"rendered":"

ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team \"WLS<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 4, 2026 4:20PM<\/p>\n

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CHICAGO (WLS) — Seven people were hospitalized after a fire broke out in a South Side high-rise building’s trash chute on Saturday morning, the Chicago Fire Department said.<\/p>\n

Smoke could be seen coming from the top of the building near West 71st Street and South Lafayette Avenue in the city’s Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.<\/p>\n

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CFD said the entire building was evacuated, and Chicago firefighters have extinguished the flames.<\/p>\n

Of those transported to hospitals, four were in good condition and three were in fair condition.<\/p>\n

Twelve people refused medical treatment on the scene, CFD said.<\/p>\n

It’s not yet clear how the fire started.<\/p>\n

Authorities did not immediately provide further information.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back with ABC7 for updates.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Saturday, July 4, 2026 4:20PM CHICAGO (WLS) — Seven people were hospitalized after a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[369244,960,5463,11222,46098,5462,105327,72916,239967,63578,369243,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-913433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-369244","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-breaking-news","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chicago-fire-department","tag-chicago-news","tag-fire-today","tag-grand-crossing","tag-grand-crossing-chicago","tag-greater-grand-crossing","tag-greater-grand-crossing-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116865511344084141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913433","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=913433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}