Excerpts from Chicago.cbslocal.com:
A 61-year-old man is dead and a 55-year-old woman is hospitalized after a fire started around 12:45 a.m. near 63rd and Honore streets in West Englewood early Sunday morning.
Lonnie McDowell was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman who survived is being treated for smoke inhalation. Seven other people living at the house are now homeless.
Following the fire, members of the Fire Department’s Public Education Division talked with people who live nearby and visited homes, giving out smoke detectors and fire safety literature.
