Fire rips through a home in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood

CHICAGO (CBS) — A fire raged for four hours at a home in the Bridgeport neighborhood Monday evening.

Flames were seen coming from the roof of the brick worker’s cottage at 3037 S. Lock St.

Lock Street is one of several short streets running perpendicular to the diagonal Archer Avenue and the Stevenson Expressway in Bridgeport, just south of the North Branch of the Chicago River.

CBS News Chicago was told the fire started in the basement of the home and spread quickly.

The Chicago Fire Department has not yet said how the fire started.