By Associated Press - Saturday, April 12, 2014

TINLEY PARK, Ill. (AP) - A woman has died after a fire at her home in the southern Chicago suburb of Tinley Park.

Friday night’s blaze heavily damaged the home where the 78-year-old woman lived alone.

Fire Chief Ken Dunn tells the Southtown Star (https://bit.ly/1hAoQBE ) crews extinguished the fire in about 15 minutes.



He says the woman was taken to a hospital in New Lenox, where she was pronounced dead.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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Information from: Southtown Star, https://www.southtownstar.com

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