The Chicago Fire Department on Tuesday honored former Lt. Scott Gillen, 25 years after he died.

A new class of 70 Chicago firefighters, EMTs and paramedics graduated from the academy in a ceremony Monday morning at Navy Pier's Aon Grand Ballroom. The Chicago Fire Department said 55 ...

Twenty-five years ago on Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Scott Gillen was killed in a crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway.

Six people left the dining room on the 95th floor of Chicago’s famed Hancock building early Friday, stepped into an express elevator and fell 84 floors before they were rescued by firefighters who had ...

Chicago Fire Department crews responded to a large fire and collapse on Thanksgiving at Renewal Life Church on South Emerald Avenue in Englewood. The wolf supermoon will kick off 2026 with a celestial ...

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An overnight fire broke out in a third-story apartment building on the city’s South Side last night, impacting the rear of the complex. The multi-alarm structure fire occurred in the 5600 block of ...

Gov. JB Pritzker just signed the pension benefits bill, HB 3657, into law. Since then, editorials have used it to attack the men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. They focus on price tags and ...

CHICAGO — A man is dead after a recreational vehicle fire on the city’s South Side. The blaze started around 10:40 p.m. Sunday on the 10700 block of South LaSalle in the Roseland neighborhood.

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (WLS) -- A large junkyard fire is burning in the south suburbs on Saturday. Video captured the flames at 630 E Joe Orr Road in Chicago Heights in the morning hours. The Chicago ...

According to scanner reports, the West Chicago Fire Department was on scene, responding to the crash on Runway 20R, US News, Times Now ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...