Kyle looked back at her, "safest place right now since we made them pull out of downtown which is good gives us a place to run to." He stopped for a minute smelling smoke, he looked back to see the building on fire. "Hopefully Jacob got out before the fire started."

Jacob and the others he was leading, were taking the detour to downtown. Since he knew a search team couldn't follow both. Most likely the search team would follow them since they were taking the long way toward downtown Chicago.