...pulled the scaffolding inside the building and began taking its lower panels apart, said Cmdr. Tim Stokes of the Chicago Fire Department. Crews worked to board up dozens of windows shattered as scaffolding platforms blew against the glass. In all...

...here," he says. Consider what has happened in the Chicago area in little more than a month. On Dec. 23, Chicago Fire Department Lt. Scott Gillen was killed by a car that authorities say roared past flares and emergency lights at the scene...

...they attacked that type of situation is the way everybody does things," said Dennis Gault, a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department. "When this type of thing happens, we have to re-evaluate things." Robert Franco, a battalion chief in...