CHICAGO, IL : Ambulance crashes into building in Little Italy on Wednesday, 28th June 2023

A congregation on the West Side is counting their blessings, after a Chicago Fire Department ambulance came careening through the side of their church this morning.

Two paramedics and a patient were inside when the ambulance crashed into the side of Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, near the intersection of Oakley Boulevard and Harrison Street shortly after 7:30 a.m. All three were hospitalized.

Pastor Autry Phillips said it could have been much worse.

At the corner of two streets that bear his brother and father's names on honorary street signs, Phillips and his congregation watched as a tow truck pulled an ambulance from the side of the 50-year-old church, leaving behind a pile of brick and mortar.

"Buildings we can replace. The fence, we can replace. We cannot replace lives," Phillips said.

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