{"id":119269,"date":"2026-01-15T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119269\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:12:07","slug":"fire-breaks-out-in-historic-building-in-jacksonville-il-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/119269\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out in historic building in Jacksonville IL | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WAND) – The Jacksonville Fire Department was called out for a huge fire at a vacant apartment building early Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The historic building on West State Street in downtown Jacksonville caught fire just before 6 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Firefighters searched the building and found no one inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

JFD tells WAND News the fire is considered to be under control as of 8:30 a.m., but it is still an active scene with firefighters working on hot spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is a stand alone structure, and firefighters said no neighboring buildings are at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WAND News has a crew headed to the scene. We will update you as more information becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top Stories:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Snow Squall Warning issued for parts of Central Illinois<\/a><\/p>\n

3 arrested as ISP investigates officer-involved shooting in Springfield<\/a><\/p>\n

IDHS: Trump administration cuts $6 million in IL federal grants<\/a><\/p>\n

Illinois House could vote on bill banning rental junk fees this spring<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright 2026. WAND TV. All rights reserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Ill. (WAND) – The Jacksonville Fire Department was called out for a huge fire at a vacant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14987,35719,855,9879,116,59907,118,55123,117,59909,266,11825,35720,35721,59908],"class_list":{"0":"post-119269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-apartment-fire","9":"tag-decatur","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-fire-department","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-il","16":"tag-jacksonville-news","17":"tag-jfd","18":"tag-local-news","19":"tag-vacant","20":"tag-wand","21":"tag-wandtv","22":"tag-west-state-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}