Chicago journalist who died in Brighton Park fire remembered as 'brilliant, hardworking'

Wednesday, November 15, 2023
CHICAGO (WLS) -- ABC7 is learning more about a Chicago journalist who died in a fire on Friday in Brighton Park.

Rocio Villaseñor was inside a home that went up in flames in the 3200 block of West 38th Place. Her father was also hurt in the fire.
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Block Club Chicago said Villaseñor worked for them as a writer.

The University of Chicago said she was a Lab School employee, describing her as "brilliant, hardworking and gentle."
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Investigators are still trying to figure out how the fire started.
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