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1 Person In Critical Condition, 10 Displaced After Apartment Building Fire On South Side

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Ten people were forced into the cold when a fire ripped through a South Side apartment building early Sunday morning.

It happened just before 3 a.m. near 38th Street and Ellis Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood, close to the lakefront.

A man in his 30s suffered burns and smoke inhalation and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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