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Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot established the Emergency Supplemental Victims Fund as a pilot in five communities. Her successor, Mayor Brandon Johnson, is using federal stimulus funds to expand the program into 10 additional neighborhoods.
A man, 53, was killed and a 74-year-old man was wounded Monday night in the 2100 block of East 71st Street.
Firefighters responded to the fire, which broke out in an apartment on the top floor of a building in the 2400 block of East 78th Street around 2:30 a.m.
The woman, whose age was not known, suffered major burns after furniture caught fire in a home in the 7400 block of South Exchange Avenue.