The city of Aurora is cleaning up after a partial building collapse that injured three people.
It happened at around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the busy downtown area as cars drove by.
Scaffolding and part of an exterior wall of the brick three-story historic building at Galena and Broadway collapsed.
The city says the three people who suffered minor injuries are expected to fully recover.
Mayor John Laesch was at the scene and posted on social media the fire department used high-pressured water to force a controlled collapse of areas of the building it found to be unstable.
This is the same building where bricks fell in August of 2025 and the mayor says the owner responded quickly Wednesday night.
No one was living on the upper floors and there was no work happening at the time of the collapse, according to the city.
The cause of the collapse is under investigation.
