The blaze, which was reported at 5:28 p.m., broke out in a multi-family structure at 721 West 61st Street, between Halsted Street and Union Avenue.
At 5:40 p.m., firefighters were still battling the flames.
According to an officer at the scene, no one was home when the fire started.
No further details are available.
Photo: 721 West 61st Street; courtesy of the Cook County Assessor's Office.
At one time when whites built all those homes they were gorgeous, regal, and well-maintained for generations. The nigs moved in and destroyed them like they destroy everything decent.
ReplyDeleteThat IS a nice looking graystone!
ReplyDeleteWAS. Look at the missing windows and torn screens. The el-cheapo chain link fence and broken porch give much "character" as well.
ReplyDeleteSo THAT's what an Englewood porch (murder scene) looks like. And inside is where they manufacture little gangbangers and welfare queens.
ReplyDeleteThe porch monkeys use the porches as drug drive-thrus.
ReplyDeleteWell, if chicago ever has to move the city borders inward like detroit did, we know these types of properties wont be bulldozed. Even with fire damage, one of those might be worth rehabbing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, "gut-rehabbed" or whatever you call it here. Add granite countertops/stainless steel appliances, remove original architectural details because they're ruined (like Detroit), add dry-wall 'cuz all plaster walls/ceilings beyond repair (like Detroit), add restaurant around the corner that has bubble tea, leave original lead plumbing and electrical wiring and......bingo......sold.....to a sucker from Minnesota. Oh, have cash because you're not getting a mortgage in your lifetime on anything like this (like Detroit). Or you can always buy a beautiful tudor mansion with marble basement flooring and a patrolling neighborhood watch program in the Palmer Woods area (OF Detroit). Masonry work is much more detailed and beautiful there too. These "graystones" are fugly (and they didn't use that second hand, low-quality brick on the sides of the most of the homes there either - never understood that here, makes 'em even fuglier). The vinyl sided junk next door adds, uh, "uniformity" to the 'hood too. Next?
ReplyDeleteCool looking house; I hope someone restores it.
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