Crime & Safety
Fire Burns 1st-Floor Bedroom on Thorn Street
Investigators don't yet have an official cause for the Thursday afternoon fire.
Fire damaged the first-floor bedroom in a Thorn Street rental property Thursday afternoon.
The fire was confined to one room along the north wall of 1642 Thorn Street, according to one official. A bed and box spring were destroyed in the blaze.
The building is a two-floor rental property that has been rehabilitated within the last three years.
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Power was cut off to the building and ComEd was on the scene Thursday. Smoke detectors inside the apartment had tripped.
The cause of the fire and a damage estimate were not immediately available.
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