by 100Clubillinois | Mar 3, 1979 | Fallen Heroes
Patrolman William P. Bosak and Patrolman Roger Van Schaik were shot killed in an ambush attack. Officers Bosak and Van Schaik were returning to their squad car when a motorist traveling in the opposite direction stopped along side them. Without warning, the assailant...
by 100Clubillinois | Mar 3, 1979 | Fallen Heroes
Patrolman Roger W. Van Schaik and his partner Officer William Bosak were shot killed in an ambush attack. Officers Van Schaik and Bosak were returning to their squad car when a motorist traveling in the opposite direction stopped along side them. Without warning, the...
by 100Clubillinois | Nov 10, 1978 | Fallen Heroes
Officer James Days died after suffering a heart attack during a foot pursuit. Officer Days and his partner were on patrol when they saw an auto driving erratically in the 1300 block of East 50th Street. They chased the auto to the 1300 block of East Madison Park...
by 100Clubillinois | Oct 20, 1978 | Fallen Heroes
On October 20, 1978, Firefighter Robert Sorby of the Chicago Fire Department was fatally injured when he fell out of a moving fire apparatus. Sorby fell while riding in the jump seat on a pumper truck that was responding to a fuel spill on a runway at O’Hare...
by 100Clubillinois | Sep 14, 1978 | Fallen Heroes
Sergeant Anthony F. Janowski was assigned to Area 6 when his squad car was broad sided. Sergeant Janowski was in the process of completing a separate accident report. As he was enroute to the headquarters to file paperwork, he was killed in an unrelated accident....
