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Friends, family bid farewell to BK woman burned alive

Friends and family attended a memorial service today for a 73-year-old Prospect Heights woman burned alive in an elevator. Deloris Gillespie was set on fire in her building's elevator on Dec. 17. Police

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Dec 31, 2011, 1:47 PM

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