Afternoon Briefing: What’s next for Rockford’s Bell Bowl Prairie?
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One person is dead and several victims were injured today in an extra-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the Kenwood neighborhood that burnt through several floors of the building and sent debris flying to the ground.
Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt said at a press briefing that one person had died. Ald. Sophia King, 4th, told the Tribune the victim was a woman.
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