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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.
Fireside plays host to a scene in NBC's Chicago Fire in the episode entitled "Headlong Toward Disaster", which aired on February 15, 2015. The Fireside Bowl is the topic of the Allister song "Somewhere on Fullerton" and is also mentioned in a song by The Methadones called "Suddenly Cool".
Thirty-four people died in the streetcar while another fifty, some on the streetcar and others in the surrounding area, were injured. [1] [5] According to the National Safety Council’s report two days after the crash, it was the largest death toll from a motor vehicle collision, surpassing the 29 people killed in a 1940 Texas train-truck collision. [6]
CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. — Two fires destroyed six homes and displaced nine people in Chicago Heights overnight. The fires started just after 11 p.m. Tuesday near 15th Street and Lowe Avenue.
The video shows fumes rising from behind a mountain shortly after 10:30 a.m. Within minutes the fumes grow bigger and blacker and soon the metropolitan skyline appears to be covered in large ...
Video footage of fire containment efforts shows a California Air National Guard plane attempting to suppress the fire by "dropping a line of fire retardant on the Palisades Fire in the mountains ...
On July 23, 1984, an explosion and fire took place at a Union Oil Lemont Refinery in Romeoville, Illinois, outside Chicago, killing 17 people and causing major property damage. [2] The explosive force propelled the upper portion 14 metres (46 ft) of the vessel a distance of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from its original location, while the base ...
A 28-year-old Chicago man, Luis Vela, was charged with first-degree murder in connection with a deadly shooting on the Southwest Side in July 2023. Vela is accused of opening fire on two men ...