The Hardest-Working Paper in America | 
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
News Chicago Metro/State

Fire burns a South Loop dry cleaners

The building is expected to be a complete loss, fire officials said.

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
SHARE Fire burns a South Loop dry cleaners
Fire officials battle a blaze at Pronto Cleaners and Laundry, 2235 S. Michigan Ave.

Fire officials battle a blaze at Pronto Cleaners and Laundry, 2235 S. Michigan Ave.

Chicago Fire Department

A dry cleaners caught fire early Tuesday in South Loop, according to Chicago fire officials.

About 1:15 a.m., crews responded to Pronto Cleaners and Laundry, 2235 S. Michigan Ave., for calls of the building on fire, fire officials said. The fire was struck out about 30 minutes later.

No one was injured in the blaze and the building is expected to be a complete loss, fire officials said.

An investigation into the origin of the blaze is ongoing.

Next Up In News
Netflix looks to curb password sharing, considers ads
Aiming to predict COVID, future pandemics better, CDC opens infectious diseases forecasting center
Joliet farmers wrangle cows thrown from semitrailer after crash on Interstate 80
1 killed, 3 wounded in shootings Tuesday in Chicago
Obama relatives sue Milwaukee school alleging racial bias
Unmasked transit: Pritzker ends mask mandates in public transportation, airports
The Latest
Renderings of the proposed new Bears stadium
Columnists
Bears have designs on the lakefront, as Mayor Johnson plays the wrong position of cheerleader-in-chief
The city is willing to put private interests ahead of public benefit and cheer on a wrongheaded effort to build a massive domed stadium — that would be perfect for Arlington Heights — on Chicago’s lakefront.
By Lee Bey
 
“Russian War Prisoner” by Egon Schiele is a watercolor painting with shades of green, blue and red on a pencil drawing.
Art
Art Institute defends ownership of watercolor that New York prosecutors say was seized by Nazis
The Art Institute of Chicago, responding to allegations by New York prosecutors, says it’s ‘factually unsupported and wrong’ that Egon Schiele’s ‘Russian War Prisoner’ was looted by Nazis from the original owner’s heirs.
By Emmanuel Camarillo
 
J.D. Vance
In blocking April Perry from U.S. attorney post, J.D. Vance shows he's pro-Trump, pro-crime
April Perry has instead been appointed to the federal bench. But it’s beyond disgraceful that Vance, a Trump acolyte, used the Senate’s complex rules to block Perry from becoming the first woman in the top federal prosecutor’s job for the Northern District of Illinois.
By CST Editorial Board
 
Bill Skarsgård plays a mute man whose inner voice is provided by H. Jon Benjamin in "Boy Kills World."
Movies and TV
Ultraviolent 'Boy Kills World' hits you over the head with gimmicks
Bill Skarsgård plays a fighter seeking vengeance as film builds to some ridiculous late bombshells.
By Richard Roeper
 
Cubs Padres Baseball
Cubs
Cubs' Kyle Hendricks is approaching IL stint with mind to turn around his season
“I need to get back to being myself,” the starting pitcher told the Sun-Times, “using my full arsenal and mixing it in and out.”
By Maddie Lee