How you can help those displaced by West Chicago apartment fire

Lorena Barroso stood outside her apartment building in West Chicago Friday, unsure of what the future holds.

“I’m looking for a place … there isn’t one here,” she said as she stood in front of the Main Park Apartment complex in the 800 block of Burr Oaks Drive in West Chicago.

She lost everything in the fire except her purse, car keys and the clothes she was wearing Thursday. The outfit she wore Friday was given to her by her sister.

“I’m starting from nothing … but moving forward,” she said.

Her apartment building was boarded up and surrounded by a chain-link fence Friday.

West Chicago Fire Protection District Chief Patrick Tanner said the department closed its investigation into the blaze. Though no cause was determined, the fire was “non-suspicious” and started in a second-story apartment, Tanner said.

While the building’s fire alarm system passed inspection earlier this year, the department’s…