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2023: 17 Fires

Photos of the buildings were taken during or after the fire.

The photos of the boarded-up buildings were taken January 15, 2024.

2023 Fires Map

December 29

1020 W. Foster Avenue / 5200 N. Sheridan Road

The Edison Apartments
Residents trapped and rescued by ladder. Smoke alarm system did not operate.

  • Fire on 6th floor

  • 2 residents critically injured

  • Injured resident on fire floor stated that no alarms were sounding

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December 26

6253 S. Michigan Avenue

Southland Village Apartments

December 10

6430 S. Stony Island Avenue

Island Terrace Apartments

December 8

3033 N. Sheridan Road

3033 Sheridan Tower Condominiums

November 6

3515 S. Cottage Grove Avenue

Lake Grove Village Apartments

October 9

3110 N. Sheridan Road

October 4

6401 S. Yale Avenue

CHA Vivian Carter Apartments

September 23

3550 S. Rhodes Avenue

Lawless Gardens Apartments

  • Fire on 10th floor

  • Across the parking lot from previous fire at 3620 S. Rhodes Avenue

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September 10

3620 S. Rhodes Avenue

Lawless Gardens Apartments

August 18

421 W. Melrose Street

The Eddystone

July 31

7100 S. South Shore Drive

7100 South Shore Apartments

  • Fire on 14th floor

  • Same building had a fire that injured a resident in 2017.

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June 11

999 N. Lake Shore Drive

May 4

6730 S. South Shore Drive

Lakefront Place

  • Fire on 10th floor of 15-story building

  • Same building had a two-fatality fire in 2013.

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April 12

6151 N. Winthrop Avenue

Winthrop Tower

April 8

6430 S. Stony Island Drive

Island Terrace Apartments

April 5

1212 N. Lake Shore Drive

  • Fire on 27th floor

  • 1 firefighter death – Chicago Fire Lieutenant Jan Tchoryk collapsed climbing the stairs (as elevators were shut down) and was unable to be revived

  • Other firefighters injured and 3 other injuries reported

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January 25

4850 S. Lake Park Avenue

Harper Square Cooperative

  • Fire on 15th floor of 25-story Kenwood neighborhood high-rise spread quickly on exterior of building and extended vertically to the 24th floor

  • 1 resident death

  • 8 residents injured, 1 firefighter injured

  • 143 units deemed uninhabitable

  • 200+ residents still displaced one year later

  • Residents from 80 units still displaced at two-year anniversary of fire

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