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The Inspector General’s Office for the City of Chicago has found the fire department’s Fire Prevention Bureau lacking when it comes to required building inspections, saying it is “unable to accurately ...

A city “scarred and shaped by fire” is inviting more of the same by inspecting over a 12-month period just 17% of the buildings in its database for fire code violations and failing to maintain an ...