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Preliminary reports indicate that food left on a stove in a Bolingbrook apartment unit was responsible for an extra alarm fire this morning that injured 13 people, including one police officer, officials said.

Residents from about 70 apartment units on the second floor of the building at 505 Preston Drive are being temporarily housed at a local school while officials clear out smoke from the fire, said Bolingbrook Police Lt. Mike Rompa.

The complex has about five buildings with a total of about 700 units, but only the second floor of one building was affected by the fire, he said.

The fire began about 6:07 a.m. and was struck out about 8 a.m.

Rompa said that 13 people were being treated for smoke inhalation: 12 residents and a Bolingbrook police officer who was assisting in getting people out of the building. Rompa said the injuries did not appear life-threatening.

The second floor of the affected building was "inundated with smoke"...

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A stretcher is lowered down to an emergency worker (right) to pull up a taxi driver who was struck by a vehicle along Interstate 90 near O'Hare International Airport early this morning. (Lane Christiansen / Chicago Tribune)

A taxi driver was seriously injured early Saturday when he stepped out of his passenger van and was struck by a vehicle on the Jane Addams Tollway near O'Hare International Airport.

Shortly after 5 a.m., Illinois State Police responded to a call of a person hit in the eastbound lanes of the Jane Addams (Interstate Highway 90) near the airport.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the taxi driver was later ticketed, officials said.

The man stepped out of his taxi to change a tire, state pol...

It's time to turn the clocks forward.

Daylight saving time began at 2 a.m. Sunday, so clocks should be set an hour later today if you haven't already done so. The United States -- with a few local exceptions -- loses an hour so that there is more daylight in the afternoon and evening.

Daylight saving time lasts until Nov. 7 this year.

The move is thought to save energy because it allows for less use of electricity for lighting.
Used during World War I and World War II, daylight saving time was established nationally in 1966, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.

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Source: Chicago Breaking News | Published: 14 Mar 2010, 8:00 am

Two men, described as in their 30s, were shot this morning in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood.  

About 1:10 a.m., the men walked into Jackson Park Hospital and told the staff they were shot at the intersection of 76th Street and Jeffery Boulevard.  Both men were listed as in stable condition at the hospital, said police. 

No one is in custody for the shooting. Police are investigating.

-- Deanese Williams-Harris

A 16-year-old boy was shot several times and seriously injured Saturday afternoon in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.

About 4:38 p.m., police found the youth shot multiple times in the abdomen in the 5100 block of West St. Paul Avenue.

The boy was taken to Children's Memorial Hospital and described as in serious condition.

Police are investigating.

-- Staff report

A woman and a 1-year-old girl she was carrying were hit by a train this morning as the woman tried to cross railroad tracks at the North Chicago Metra station, authorities said.

The woman, identified as Blanca Villanueva-Sanchez, 34, was declared dead at the scene. The girl, identified as Maria Cruz, was declared dead about noon at Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, said Lake County Coroner Richard Keller. The woman was carrying the girl when she was struck by the train, North Chicago fire officials said in a prepared statement.

Villanueva-Sanchez was the girl's godmother, police and Keller said.

Villanueva-Sanchez was crossing the tracks at the south end of the Metra Station, 1633 Lakeside Ave. in the north suburb, a little before 9 a.m. when the crash happened, said Metra spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet.

The woman crossed from the parking lot on the west side of the tracks to get to the station...

The scene of an extra-alarm fire in Maywood overnight (Carlos Javier Ortiz / for the Chicago Tribune)

Maywood firefighters rescued a boy from the lone apartment in a late-1800s building during an extra-alarm fire in the west suburb overnight.

The fire at 20 N. 5th Avenue caused extensive damage to the 3-story building, which housed a thrift shop, a dance studio and the apartment, which was located at the back of the building's second floor, said Maywood Fire Chief John Cadagin.

The fire began about 11:30 p.m. Friday night, and fire officials were alerted to the blaze by an automatic fire alarm at the building, Cadagin said.

When Firefighter Tony Morrone and several other firefighters arrived on the scene, they were told by a man who met them at front door to...