Two People, Dog Rescued After Chicago Apartment Building Collapses

Buildings adjacent to collapsed structure, near 58th Street and Calumet Avenue, deemed unsafe and ordered to be evacuated

Two women and a dog were rescued from the rubble of a three-story apartment building that collapsed Sunday night on Chicago's South Side.

About 1,000 power customers were left without power after the building, near East 58th Street and South Calumet Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood, came down at around 7 p.m. after what neighbors said was a series of booms.

"I saw the door literally burst out from out the building," said neighbor McKiley Jonkins. "I didn't see the building crash or anything. I just saw the door, like, literally come to the middle the street and it hit my mom's friend's car. It busted her car window out."

Responding officials pulled two women, said to be 51 and 78 years old, from the debris. They were taken in serious-to-critical condition to both John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Both were said to be in stable condition as of 5 a.m. Monday.

A dog named Tigger was also rescued from the rubble.

Officials later deemed the buildings that flanked the collapsed building as unsafe and ordered them evacuated.

The Chicago Police Department Bomb and Arson Unit was called to the site but there was no determination by early Monday as to what caused the blast and collapse.

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