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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...
Updated: Oct 15, 2011 at 06:20 PM
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...
Updated: Oct 13, 2011 at 05:27 PM
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...
Updated: Oct 02, 2011 at 09:36 AM
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...
Updated: Sep 30, 2011 at 01:04 PM
At last, a memorial:
We and other organizations have long called for a memorial marking the deadliest airliner accident on U.S. soil. Finally, 32 years after Flight 191 crashed in a Des Plaines field, a stone wall listing the names of the 273 people...
Updated: Aug 27, 2011 at 06:01 AM
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 ...
Updated: Aug 25, 2011 at 01:34 PM
Still bullish:
So, the crushing defense and late-game heroics of the Miami Heat proved too much after all for the Bulls’ NBA playoff hopes. It’s disappointing. But for fans who’ve been longing for a revival of past glory, it was a magical season. An...
Updated: May 27, 2011 at 07:45 PM
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 ...
Updated: May 26, 2011 at 03:58 PM
Updated: May 25, 2011 at 12:20 AM
As Memorial Day again approaches, metropolitan Chicago will mark once more the anniversary of the deadliest single airline crash (barring 9/11 terrorism) in our nation’s aviation history.
On the afternoon of Friday, May 25, 1979, American Flight 191...
Published: May 22, 2011 at 01:00 AM