Illinois building partially collapsed onto busy street, injuring 3 — hours after deadly Brooklyn catastrophe

A partial collapse at a 122-year-old building in Aurora, Illinois, injured three people on Wednesday, hours after a deadly apartment building collapse in Brooklyn. Part of the building’s exterior wall fell onto a busy street, prompting an evacuation and road closures while crews removed unsafe sections.

The three injured people had minor injuries and were expected to recover. The Aurora building, at 100 East Galena Boulevard, was mostly empty, with a barber shop as its only operating business; investigators had not identified a cause, and initial evidence did not connect the incident to a partial facade collapse at the same address in 2025. In Brooklyn, a three-storey building collapse killed eight people and sent 18 to hospital.