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A mother dropped two children, including an infant, to firefighters outside a burning multistory building on the West Side on Sunday night.
Five children and one adult were taken to area hospitals suffering minor smoke inhalation, officials said. An alarm was called at 8:14 p.m. for the fire in the seven-story building in the 2300 block of West Jackson, said Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford.
Firefighters used a ladder to reach the sixth floor of the building, where the blaze started in an incinerator chute and spread to an apartment, Langford said.
Emergency crews went to the seventh floor, where a firefighter kicked in the door of an apartment and found the woman and children near the window threatening to jump.
Firefighters persuaded the woman to lower and drop two children to firefighters on a ladder outside the window.
The woman and children were in good condition at Stroger Hospital.