CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill. – Residents of a Chicago Ridge apartment are displaced after a large fire ripped through the building.

Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... sweeping flames. The inside iron doors were closed on all the windows....We still thought the second floor was safe... [but] the fire burst through ...

One person was hospitalized after a fire broke out at a house on the city's Southwest Side on Tuesday afternoon, the Chicago Fire Department said.