Chicago block parties often buzz with tales of quirky neighbors, old disputes and local lore. It’s rare when the day a private plane crashed into a home across from the DJ booth becomes the topic of conversation.
A friendly neighbor told me the story, and I have tried to learn everything I can about the case ever since.
While commercial air disasters like the American Airlines Flight 191 in 1979 that killed 279 people are more well known to most Chicagoans, there have been other crashes that were covered in far less detail…