A man was found dead in an apartment during a fire Sunday morning on the Near West Side.
James Depriest, 50, was found inside the apartment in the 2700 block of West Wilcox Street about 1:05 a.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.About 15 minutes later, two Chicago police officers were hospitalized and a woman was critically injured Sunday morning in another fire about 14 miles southeast in South Chicago on the Far South Side.
Officers responded to the fire inside a house in the 3000 block of East 79th Place about 1:20 a.m. and found a woman unresponsive, police said.She was taken to Trinity Hospital, where she was in critical condition, officials said. Two responding officers were taken to a local hospital for smoke inhalation, police said. Both were in good condition, authorities said.Fire officials extinguished both fires and were investigating the incidents.
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