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Chicago After Dark: Chatham fire; woman carjacked in Logan Square | Feb. 8, 2018

By Jordan Owen

Welcome to our morning article #afterdark, a roundup of crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.

Four people were injured, including two Chicago police officers, ina residential fire Thursday morning in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

Fire crews respond to an extra-alarm fire early Friday in the 2900 block of West 63rd Street. | Chicago Fire Media Affairs — Four people were injured, including two Chicago police officers, in a residential fire Thursday morning in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. | Chicago Fire Department

A 48-year-old woman was carjacked early Thursday in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
A 20-year-old man was injured in a crash early Thursday morning in the West Rogers Park neighborhood on the North Side.

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