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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sophie Sherry

Chicago firefighter’s wife dies from injuries in house fire that killed 7-year-old son, badly injured their 2 other children

A tricycle sits on the lawn in front of Chicago firefighter Walter Stewart’s home in 2500 block of North Rutherford Avenue, where a fire erupted Tuesday night. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The wife of a Chicago firefighter has died days after a fire broke out in the family’s Montclare home, killing their 7-year-old son and seriously injuring their two other children.

Summer Day-Stewart, 36, died about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Her son, Ezra Steward, 7, was pronounced dead a day earlier.

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