An explosive device might have touched off a fire at a four-story building fire on the city’s West Side where up to four people might be injured, officials said.

A 23-year old man was shot dead while sitting in a van, and another man was wounded Monday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.

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A 33-year-old man was found shot in the hallway of an apartment building Monday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the city’s South Side.

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Police and firefighters were on the scene of a four-story building fire on the city’s West Side where up to four people might be injured, officials said.

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin toured Argonne National Laboratory on today to draw attention to proposed federal spending cuts that he said “will kill jobs, kill research and kill the competitive edge that America needs to succeed in the 21st century.”