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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
To many longtime residents of the suburbs, especially those living closest to O'Hare International Airport, the memories of what happened 30 years ago today still haunt.
And to the families of the 271 passengers and crew aboard American Airlines Fli...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 04:14 PM
While watching a rehearsal on Chicago's Forum Theatre stage where his hit novel, "Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?" was less than a week from opening, John Powers got the phone call telling him what he had missed.
"It was my younger sister...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 04:07 PM
A young journalism graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Paul Marcotte barely began his 3 p.m. to midnight shift as a cop reporter for the Daily Herald when his Motorola two-way radio squawked to life in his car.
"It was a beautiful day, clear ...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 04:13 PM
As a kid, the only thing Dennis Tajer ever wanted to do when he grew up was be a pilot.
When American Airlines Flight 191 crashed just outside of O'Hare International Airport 30 years ago, it didn't deter him.
"I recall hearing the news and seeing ...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 04:05 PM
If you think the news is dark these days, try going back 30 years, when on May 25, 1979, it must have literally seemed as if the sky was falling with the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 just outside O'Hare International Airport.
The Chicago ar...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 04:01 PM
Thirty years ago this weekend, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed on takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in a field in an unincorporated area between Des Plaines and Elk Grove Village. The crash killed all 271 onboard and another two people ...
Updated: Nov 07, 2021 at 03:32 PM