8-year-old boy, 2 others hospitalized after house fire in Portage Park

Three people, including an 8-year-old boy, were taken to the hospital from the scene of a fire in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood early Monday.

Chicago police were called at 6:14 a.m. for a house in the 4000 block of North Austin Avenue, between Belle Plaine Avenue and Irving Park Road.

On emergency radio, first responders referred to the blaze as a basement fire multiple times. Basement windows were seen busted out…

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