Fire in Evanston Injures 9 at Hotel

Nine residents of an Evanston retirement hotel were injuredWednesday when smoke from a fire in an underground electrical vaultdrifted into the hotel.

Power was knocked out for three hours in a large section ofdowntown Evanston, bounded by Clark, Lake, Benson and Judson, saidCommonwealth Edison spokesman Art Massa. Some businesses sentemployees home early.

Fire Chief Alan Berkowsky said the outage affected stores,office and apartment buildings and several nursing …