Excerpts from the ChicagoTribune.com:
Chicago firefighters were called to 819 S. State St. about 11 a.m. Saturday where 15 people were trapped in an elevator that was stuck on the fourth floor of the building. It wasn’t immediately clear how long they had been trapped in the inoperable elevator.
Ten people were able to go up through a hatch in the top of the elevator, meet a waiting firefighter and ascend a ladder within the elevator shaft to get free. To reach the remaining five occupants, firefighters had to knock through a wall in order to get close enough to free them from the elevator.
