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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Rosemary Sobol

3 dead in Edgewater after hazardous materials response: officials

Chicago police investigate at Judge Fisher Apartments, 5821 N. Broadway, where three people died Friday after a hazardous materials response. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Two women and a man have died after a hazardous materials emergency at a high-rise housing seniors in the Edgewater neighborhood on Friday morning.

The first call came in at 8:08 a.m. at 5821 N. Broadway, Fire Dpartment spokesman Larry Merritt said. One man was dead on the scene and two women, who were possibly in their 40s and 70s, were taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where they died, Merritt said.

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