Excerpts from abc7chicago.com:
A 59-year-old man was found dead in a fire .
Firefighters responded about 1:40 p.m. to a six-unit building in the 2600 block of S. Wells St. in Chinatown Thursday. Heavy fire was coming from the front window. Inside, firefighters found a man near the front of the building who was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was 59 years old and had burns on his body. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released his name or cause of death.
No one else was injured, and there was no working smoke alarm inside. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
