A 61-year-old man died Saturday after being caught in a fire in Back of the Yards on the South Side.
Authorities responded to the blaze about 4:30 a.m. in the 1900 block of West 48th Street, Chicago fire officials said. Crews arrived to find the third floor and attic of the three-story building in flames.
Eliseo Lazarin, 61, was found dead in the back of the third floor, officials and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. The fire was extinguished about 5:30 a.m.
Chicago police and the Office of Fire Investigations are leading the probe into the fire.
Autopsy results were pending, the medical examiner’s office said.
