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Survivors helped to pull victims out from under the debris of the balconies, and rescue workers had to use chainsaws to free others. [1] One of the survivors was a nurse, and had started a rescue effort before emergency services arrived. [3] The Chicago Fire Department supplied the main rescue effort. [3]
mostly underage victims; exit reportedly chained shut to prevent them from leaving without paying [3] Common People fire Seoul: South Korea 1984 10: 2 oil stove knocked over during quarrel oil fire spread to the couch fire broke out at 4:20 am; victims mostly underage Happy Land fire: The Bronx, New York United States 1990 87: 6 arson gasoline
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub above the Epitome restaurant at 2347 South Michigan Avenue in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by a security guard to break up a fight.
Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a ...
Chicago’s homicide victims in 2024 are often young, Black and male. Most homicide victims in Chicago died as the result of gunshot wounds. Sources: City of Chicago; Tribune reporting and archives
On August 26, 2018, a fire began early that morning in Chicago's Mexican-American Little Village neighborhood. The fire killed ten children, including six children under the age of 12. [2] The fire is the deadliest residential fire to have occurred in Chicago since 1958. [3]
Simeon Bihesi, 28, was shot and killed while he was riding a Chicago Transit Authority L train Monday morning in the suburb of Forest Park, Illinois, about 10 miles west of downtown Chicago ...
From the late-2000s to early 2010s, Parkway was the center of gang shootings mostly amongst teenagers and young adults. Tenants of Parkway and community leaders contested the crime wave that came after CHA demolished the drug-infested Robert Taylor Homes, nicknamed the "Calumet Buildings" which were once located at 6217 S. Calumet Ave.