1 dead, 1 critically injured in Brighton Park building fire

About 8 p.m., firefighters arrived at the burning building in the 3200 block of West 38th Place and found the woman, 32, unresponsive, Chicago police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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A woman was killed and a man was critically injured in a building fire Friday night in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.

About 8 p.m., Chicago firefighters responded to a fire in the 3200 block of West 38th Place and found the woman, 32, unresponsive, Chicago police said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A man, 69, was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, officials said.

The cause of the fire wasn’t immediately known.

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