Firefighters battle two-alarm fire in apartment near O’Hare, elementary school

Chicago firefighters were called to a two-alarm building fire near a school on the city’s Northwest Side on Friday afternoon.

The Chicago Fire Department said more than 100 firefighters responded to the fire in a multi-unit apartment complex in the 8600 block of West Foster Avenue, not far from O’Hare International Airport, around 2:15 p.m.

Flames and thick black smoke could be seen coming from the apartment complex. The buildings were evacuated and warming buses were called for the residents…

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