Police are working with the American Red Cross to find temporary housing for the families following the early Wednesday morning blaze.
Police said the driver of the vehicle involved is cooperating with the ongoing investigation.
Niles police responded to the shooting in the 8400 block of Greenwood Avenue around 5:40 p.m. on Thursday.
Police said a person has been taken into custody following the Thursday evening incident.
An employee of a private ambulance transport service was in the back of the vehicle when the incident occurred Tuesday afternoon.
In total, four people were injured and one person was killed in the three-vehicle crash in northern Lake County on Saturday night.
Cook County police arrested a man accused of stealing from a cancer treatment facility this week.
A 56-year-old motorist who was pulled from his car moments before it was struck by a train Thursday evening now faces criminal charges.
Police said a man pointed what appeared to be a semiautomatic pistol at bank employees. He remains at large.
Morton Grove police said they are investigating a fatal crash at the intersection of Dempster Street and Lehigh Avenue.
The Niles resident was crossing Milwaukee Avenue when he was struck and killed Sunday morning, police said.
The 49-year-old was struck in the buttocks and then taken to an area hospital, according to police.
A call of a suspicious Cadillac Escalade with shredded tires and tinted windows on a residential block Friday led to a Chicago man's arrest.
A 19-year-old is accused of stealing a Nissan Altima at gunpoint after offering to buy it.
Following complaints about "drug activity" at his house, a local man was charged with the manufacture or delivery of cannabis near a school.
Police said a carjacker punched a woman threw her to the ground Wednesday morning during a struggle over her SUV.
The driver of an Alfa Romeo rear-ended another driver on Oakton before crashing into a tree at Emerson Middle School, Niles police said.
Police were alerted by an automated license plate reader to a car that had been recently carjacked driving down Dempster.
Police said the victim went to meet his killer to conduct a "drug transaction" before he was fatally shot.
Officers found a 26-year-old Chicago man with multiple gunshot wounds at Harlem and Chase avenues.
Protestors shut down streets outside Woodward, who they say manufactures parts for bombs dropped by the Israeli military in Gaza.
The 72-year-old motorist is accused of negligence after she crashed a Mercedes SUV into an occupied townhome on the morning of Dec. 21.
A beating from an 18-year-old Park Ridge resident sent a delivery driver to the hospital last month, police said.
Prosecutors said an Iowa resident sent fake anthrax in the mail and placed a series of threatening calls to police and village officials.
Both were taken to a local hospital Friday morning, according to the Niles Police Department.
A 63-year-old man riding a bike was injured and taken to an area hospital. Niles police are looking to track down the car that struck him.
Police said a 24-year-old Chicago man was charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon after a follow-up traffic stop.
A 17-year-0ld motorist opened fire following a two-car crash in March, authorities said.
An investigation is ongoing following the Monday discovery near Beckwith Road and Lehigh Avenue.
A 63-year-old Elmwood Park man was drunk when he ran over a 72-year-old Glenview woman Sunday in Morton Grove, authorities said.
The driver of a Cadillac was taken into custody Sunday evening pending further investigation, police said.
She was crossing Milwaukee Avenue when the crash occurred Thursday morning.
The robbery was reported Dec. 23 in the 2600 block of North Sayre Avenue.
Police said Wilfredo Monge Jr. lied about being the victim of a carjacking, telling officers he was forced at gunpoint to flee.
Detectives identified a Maine Township man as the gunman who robbed Tracy's on Golf Road last month, police said.
Witnesses confronted four young men stealing a catalytic converter early Thursday, police said. One threw a metal object at them.
Carlos Kamber told a judge that "gangbangers" have been trying to kill him for cooperating with federal authorities.
The 28-year-old male suspect stabbed and slashed the victim multiple times, according to police.
A white sedan struck a 67-year-old bicyclist in a crosswalk at Milwaukee and Dempster Wednesday evening, police said.
Police said the 64-year-old had just exited Party City when she was robbed by a passenger in a small silver car.