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Fatal West Chatham shooting; man beaten, robbed on Red Line | April 18, 2018

By Jordan Owen

A fire broke out about 5:05 a.m. Wednesday in the 300 block of Memorial Drive in Calumet City. | Justin Jackson/Sun-Times

Welcome to our morning article rounding up crime (and more) happenings from around the Chicago area overnight.

About 5 a.m. Wednesday, a fire broke out at an abandoned apartment building in south suburban Calumet City.
Nine people, including one firefighter, were injured about 2 a.m. Wednesday when a fire broke out in a 21-story high-rise building in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

A fire injured nine people, including one firefighter, in the 6400 block of Lowe this morning. | Justin Jackson/Sun-Times

About 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, a man was robbed and beaten on the platform at the CTA Red Line Chicago station on the Near North Side.
About 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, a man was shot in the face in a drive-by attack in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.
A 27-year-old man stabbed himself about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
About ten minutes earlier, one man was killed and another was wounded in a shooting in the West Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

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