On the sunny Friday afternoon of May 25, 1979, the 258 passengers and 13 crew members beginning their Memorial Day weekend aboard American Airlines Flight 191 could not have imagined that they had barely 90 seconds to live. The Los Angeles-bound McD...

I don’t think the full weight of the tragic crash of American Airlines Flight 191 hit me until the next day. Back then, the airlines didn’t immediately renumber ill-fated routes after a crash the way they seem to do now, and I was a young reporter s...

Construction of the American Airlines Flight 191 Memorial at Lake Park is complete and the dedication ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 15, beginning at 11 a.m. The memorial includes a gently curved wall made of individually engraved in...

Work began Thursday on a memorial for American Airlines Flight 191 at the Des Plaines Park District’s Lake Park. The flight crashed on May 25, 1979, in a field in Elk Grove Township shortly after taking off from O’Hare International Airport, killin...

Groundbreaking for the American Airlines Flight 191 Memorial at the Des Plaines Park District's Lake Park began on Thursday, September 29. The original planter wall and flagstones, on the southeast corner of Touhy Avenue and Lee Street, were removed...

After 32 years, a memorial for the 273 people who died when American Airlines Flight 191 crashed in Elk Grove Township shortly after takeoff from O'Hare International Airport will be unveiled Oct. 15 in Des Plaines. The May 25, 1979 crash was the ...

Thirty-two years of waiting to memorialize the victims of American Airlines Flight 191 is long enough, says Melody Smith of Arlington Heights, whose parents were killed in a crash on this day in 1979. Finally, a permanent memorial will be dedicated ...