One dead as fire blazes through Chicago apartment building

Flames leap skyward out of the Harper Square co-operative residential building in the Kenwood neighbourhood of Chicago (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

One person has died and eight others were taken to hospital as firefighters responded to an apartment building fire in Chicago.

Video from outside the building in the Kenwood neighbourhood of the city’s south side showed bright orange flames on multiple floors before firefighters got them under control.