HAWTHORN WOODS, Ill. (WLIP) — Authorities have identified a body discovered in the aftermath of a weekend house fire in suburban Chicago as 73-year-old Sherman Della.
The blaze erupted Saturday afternoon in the 0-100 block of Rosewood Drive in Hawthorn Woods. Lake Zurich firefighters arrived around 3:10 p.m. to find the house engulfed in flames.
The victim’s body was found Sunday as investigators and excavation crews searched through debris and pumped water from the basement, seeking the fire’s origin point…