A man who was badly burned during an early Wednesday apartment fire in Belmont Cragin has died. The fire erupted around 12:50 a.m. in the 2300 block of North Meade Avenue and firefighters pulled the victim from the flames, Chicago police said. He suffered a laceration to his neck and burns throughout his body and was taken in critical condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he later died, officials said. Police and fire officials were investigating the cause of the fire.