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1 Dead, 2 Injured In South Side High-Rise Fire
UPDATED 02/04/11 9:29 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – One person was killed and two others were injured Thursday morning at a seniors’ public housing high-rise on the city’s South Side. The fire started at about...
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Demolition Begins On Last Cabrini-Green High-Rise
UPDATED 03/30/11 5:23 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Demolition has begun on the last high-rise standing in the Cabrini-Green public housing development. The white concrete high-rise at 1230 N. Burling St.,...
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Man Found Dead After Reports Of High-Rise Jump
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man reportedly jumped to his death from a high-rise building on the Near North Side on Thursday morning. Police were called at 10:24 a.m. because a man, who appeared to be in his...
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Glass Falls From Downtown High-Rise
CHICAGO (CBS) – There were anxious moments in the Loop Monday morning, when glass fell from a high-rise building on State Street. Police confirm the glass fell onto the intersection of State Street and...
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Woman Plunges To Death From Sheridan Road High-Rise
CHICAGO (CBS) – A woman is dead, after plunging from a high-rise on Sheridan Road in the East Lakeview neighborhood. The woman, described as being possibly in her 50s, plunged from residential...
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Seniors At High-Rise Offered Shelter During Extended Power Outage
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (CBS) – Monday’s massive power outage prompted police and fire officials in Downers Grove to make well-being checks at a high-rise for seniors. Authorities knocked on doors at the...
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Cops: South Shore Blaze ‘Possibly Electrical’
CHICAGO (STMW) – The cause of an extra-alarm high-rise fire that injured two people late Saturday in the South Shore community was not suspicious, police said Sunday. A police Bomb & Arson Section...
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Woman, Teenage Girl Hospitalized After Uptown High-Rise Fire
CHICAGO (CBS) — A woman and a teenage girl are recovering, after being injured in an electrical fire in a high-rise apartment building. Firefighters were called out at 11:40 p.m. Thursday for an...
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Officials: Open Door Helped Spread Fatal Fire In Lakeview
UPDATED 01/09/12 4:15 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — City officials said Monday that a door left open by a Lakeview couple fleeing a high-rise fire helped spread the deadly blaze and an elevator malfunction...
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Owners Of Building Without Heat Agree To Make Repairs By Monday
UPDATED 01/26/12 4:27 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Owners of a Lincoln Park apartment building that has gone without heat or hot water for days have agreed to make temporary repairs by Monday, much sooner than...
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Heat Back On At Last In Lincoln Park Apartment Building
CHICAGO (CBS) — The big chill is over for hundreds of residents of a Lincoln Park apartment building that had been without heat for more than five days. As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, a...
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High-Rise Eyesores Have Residents Seeing Red
CHICAGO (CBS) — The staggering economy has created scores of abandoned commercial housing developments across Chicago. Should they be torn down when years go by and they become eyesores? CBS 2’s Mike...
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Woman Hospitalized After Fire In Seniors’ Apartment Building
UPDATED 02/07/12 12:52 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A 77-year old woman was hospitalized, and several senior citizens were displaced, when a fire broke out in a South Loop seniors’ apartment building early...
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Disabled Boy Falls Down Garbage Chute, Dies In Gold Coast
UPDATED 02/21/12 11:51 a.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Questions abound Tuesday morning after a 16-year-old developmentally disabled boy fell to his death down a trash chute in a Gold Coast high-rise. As CBS 2’s...
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Fire Breaks Out In Uptown High-Rise
CHICAGO (CBS) — A fire broke out overnight in a high-rise building in the Uptown neighborhood. Something caught fire in a hallway in the prewar high-rise at 4423 N. Sheridan Rd. The fire broke out at...
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Many High-Rise Residents Suffering In Spring Heat
CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago has had eight days of record warmth, and it’s caused some residents of Presidential Towers in the West Loop to wonder why the air conditioning isn’t on. “I was not able to sleep...
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Woman Hospitalized After Uptown High-Rise Fire
CHICAGO (STMW) -- A 77-year-old woman was hospitalized after a fire broke out in a 20-story high-rise Friday evening in the North Side Uptown neighborhood. About 5 p.m., a fire was reported on the...
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Senior High-Rise Plays Host To Baby Falcon
CHICAGO (CBS) – Chicago is the home of sports stars, great architecture and, it seems, falcons. Yet another has been found here. And now conservationists will be able to keep track of it for years to...
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Man Charged With Stabbing Woman To Death In Sheridan Road High-Rise Condo
UPDATED 07/12/12 4:05 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A Florida man stands charged with the murder of a Sheridan Road high-rise resident – a woman who made headlines earlier this year for a very public divorce...
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Man Plunges To Death From River North High-Rise
CHICAGO (CBS) — A man plunged to his death from the 10th floor of the luxury condo tower at 30 E. Huron St. Around 7:05 a.m. Thursday, the man plunged from the 10th floor of the 56-story building, and...
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Firefighters Swarm High-Rise Fire, No Injuries
(CBS) — No one was injured Thursday afternoon when a residence in a Lincoln Park high-rise went up in flames. The fire started about 3:40 p.m., said Fire Media Affairs Chief Kevin MacGregor. A second...
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Some Condo Boards Leery Of Marketing Push For Indoor Sprinklers
CHICAGO (CBS) – Scare tactics. That’s what some residents of Chicago high-rises are saying about a campaign to convince them to install fire sprinklers in their buildings. CBS 2′s Jim Williams reports...
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Two Injured In Kenwood Senior High Rise Fire
CHICAGO (CBS) — An 85 year old man is in critical condition, after fire gutted his apartment on the South Side. play pause Senior High Rise Fire WBBM Newsradio's Michele Fiore The elderly man lives in...
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Woman Dies After Jumping From High-Rise In Uptown
CHICAGO (STMW) — A woman jumped to her death from a high-rise building Friday in the North Side Uptown neighborhood. A 54-year-old woman jumped from the sun deck of the high-rise building where she...
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High-Rise Fire Extinguished In Streeterville
Flames and smoke pour out of a 7th floor window of a 27-story high-rise in Streeterville on Feb. 1, 2013. (Photo courtesy Stephanie Eltawil) Updated 02/01/13 – 5:15 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) – Firefighters...
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High-End Apartment Rentals Booming Near Downtown
(CBS) – There’s a new wave of luxurious, residential towers about to hit Chicago, part of a high-rise building boom. But you can’t buy a place to live there. You can only rent one, CBS 2’s Derrick...
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For Second Time, Resident Found Dead In Trash Chute
Florence Banta. (Credit: Family photo) Updated 04/02/13 – 5:00 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — For the second time in just more than a year, a person was found dead at the bottom of a trash chute inside a Gold...
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Police: Man Killed In Jump From Gold Coast Building
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man jumped to his death early Tuesday from the Gold Coast high-rise building where he lived, authorities said. Police responded about 1 a.m. to the 0 to 100 block of East Chestnut...
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Fire Marshal’s Absence Sparks Anger From Condo Owners At Meeting
CHICAGO (CBS) – An angry capacity crowd turned out for a town hall meeting Wednesday night at Roosevelt University on new state fire code requirements that would force older high-rises to install...
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Firefighters Battle Blaze At Kenwood High-Rise
(STMW) — Firefighters battled an extra-alarm blaze in a high-rise in the South Side Kenwood neighborhood Friday evening. The fire started in a 15th-floor apartment in a 17-story high rise in the 900...
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None Injured, But Cat Killed In High-Rise Fire In Edgewater
CHICAGO (CBS) — Several people rushed out of their apartments Monday morning, after a fire in a high-rise in the Edgewater neighborhood. No residents were injured, but a cat was killed in the fire in...
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High-Rise Glass Falls, Hits Man On Head
http://media.chicago.cbslocal.com/CBSCHI_20150312183607870AA.mp4 Falling Glass Hits Man WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) – A piece of glass fell from a downtown high-rise Thursday and hit a man on the...
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Pilsen Activists Say Jesuits Are Contributing To Gentrification With...
Jesuit Land Deal Slammed WBBM 780/105.9FMplaypause (CBS) — Some residents of Chicago’s largely Latino Pilsen neighborhood say they’ll take their fight over a 500-unit luxury condo development on land...
View ArticleAs Temperatures Near 90, Loop High-Residents Say Management Refuses To Turn...
CHICAGO (CBS) — We almost hit 90 degrees in Chicago this Memorial Day, and hundreds of people living in one downtown high-rise said they couldn’t escape it. Some reached out to CBS 2 saying their...
View ArticleAir Conditioning Back On At Loop High-Rise After Sweltering Memorial Day Weekend
CHICAGO (CBS) — There was some good news Tuesday night for residents at a downtown high rise. After sweltering in near-90-degree temperatures over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the air conditioning...
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No Injuries In Near North Side Blaze Tuesday Morning
CHICAGO (CBS) — No one was hurt, but lots of firefighters rushed to the scene of a high rise fire on the Near North Side early Tuesday. Just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, crews rushed to Ontario and State...
View ArticlePlan For High-Rise Development Has Some Oak Park Residents Fired Up
OAK PARK, Ill. (CBS) — “Not in our neighborhood” – that is what some residents in Oak Park are saying. They are fighting to stop a proposal to build a high-rise apartment complex. But as CBS 2’s...
View ArticleA Window Shattered And Sent Glass Down From A Luxury Streeterville High-Rise...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A window shattered high above a luxury Streeterville high-rise over the weekend, sending shards of glass raining onto the street below. As CBS 2’s Marissa Parra has learned, it’s not...
View ArticlePolice: Ted Hilk Ran ‘Clandestine’ Drug Lab In Chicago High Rise Where He Died
CHICAGO (CBS) — There’s more information about what was happening inside a downtown high rise where a man, described as a genius, was found dead. Police now say it appears Ted Hilk may have been...
View ArticleNeighbors Say Developer Is Trying To Ram Through Plan For High-Rise At Maple...
CHICAGO (CBS) — A new high-rise could mean financial ruin to property owners on the same block – that is the fear of some people who live next to the proposed project. As CBS 2 Political Investigator...
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