by 100Clubillinois | Jun 3, 1986 | Fallen Heroes
On June 3, 1986, Chicago Fire Department Firefighter Teddy Jezuit suffered a heart attack immediately after a fire at a Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation landfill near O’Hare International Airport. Efforts to revive him were started on-scene, and he was...
by 100Clubillinois | Apr 3, 1986 | Fallen Heroes
Officer Richard Clark responded to a call of a “man with a gun.” An armed offender had taken his landlord hostage following a dispute. Officer Clark was shot and killed by the suspect as he arrived on the scene. The suspect was sentenced to death but later...
by 100Clubillinois | Jan 26, 1986 | Fallen Heroes
On January 26, 1986, Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Edmond Coglianese of Engine 98 died in the line of duty during a fire in the Mark Twain Hotel at 111 W. Division Street. After helping to carry two elderly residents down a ladder from the hotel’s third floor,...
by 100Clubillinois | Dec 29, 1985 | Fallen Heroes
One of the worst tragedies in Waukegan’s history was a fire that occurred on Christmas morning in 1984 at the Karcher Hotel on Washington Street and claimed the lives of nine people. For the second time in their history, the Waukegan Fire Department mourned the...
by 100Clubillinois | Nov 5, 1985 | Fallen Heroes
Patrol Officer Kenneth Dawson was shot and killed while responding to a burglary call on Cleo Court. The suspect was convicted of murder, attempted murder, aggravated kidnapping and armed robbery, and sentenced to death. On January 11, 2003, the outgoing governor...
by 100Clubillinois | Oct 17, 1985 | Fallen Heroes
Investigator Michael Ridges was shot and killed after stopping three suspects who fitted the description of men committing vandalism to a local home. As Investigator Ridges was reviewing a series of vandalism incidents that occurred around a Prospect Heights home he...
