Two brothers, ages 3 and 4, died Wednesday afternoon after being pulled from a house fire on a quiet cul-de-sac in Hickory Hills, authorities and family said. The mother of the boys ran through their two-story home trying to rescue them, but she was overcome by the flames and smoke and ran to a neighbor's house to call police, authorities said. When firefighters arrived in the 8900 block of Emerald Court in the southwest suburb around noon, the children's distraught mother was across the street, officials said.
