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Experts' goal: To make buildings terror-proof
Chicago Tribune architecture criticA week before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, structural engineers met at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany, and wondered aloud about how to build taller skyscrapers. Today, they will join architects and other building...Tags: Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago, Arts and Culture, New York City, Crime, Law and Justice, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Work world grappling with terror's grip
Chicago Tribune staff reportersBefore that fateful day, Chris Strout had an interesting but not especially demanding job managing content on Aon Corp.'s Web site. Then some hijackers plowed a jet into the insurance giant's offices in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, and his life,...Tags: Kevin Mitchell, Companies and Corporations, Disasters, Health, Career and Workplace
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'Gentle man' has not come home
Of The Morning CallHarry Blanding is a "good, quiet, gentle man who works for his family," said his pastor, the Rev. Harry Clark of Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church in Brodheadsville. Blanding, 38, whose family consists of his wife, Debbie, and their three small...Tags: New York City, Brodheadsville, Family, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pleasant Valley
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Month later, attacks cast shadow
Of The Morning CallBill Sugra and Gerry Warner talked briefly after they learned both had sons missing in the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers. They promised that if either heard from his own son, he would ask for word of the other's. That was a month ago....Tags: Smithfield, Companies and Corporations, Death, Family, Allentown
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After the fear, a new normalcy for workers in Sears Tower
Tribune staff reporterHigh over Canada, on a bright, late-summer morning, the crew of United Airlines Flight 945 out of Frankfurt, Germany, pointed the gleaming Boeing 747-400 south toward Chicago. With its signature hump, the world's fastest subsonic jetliner cruises at...Tags: Arts and Culture, Companies and Corporations, Rental Service, Employment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Companies at no loss on insuring almost anything
Your Money staff reporterIf you're the sort of person who worries about everything, the insurance industry has a policy -- or policies -- for you. A newcomer to the field is online auction protection. Buy Safe Inc. of Alexandria, Va., offers a surety-bond product if you sell...Tags: Book, Air Transportation Delays, Companies and Corporations, eBay Inc., Death
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Terror attacks leave many kids with questions
Caleb Arron Dack Olivia and Carter Dack are talking about things that small children should not have to face. "Buildings fall down. That no nice," 2-year-old Carter will say. "Daddy died. That no nice." His 6-year-old sister is more articulate. "I just...Tags: Labor Day, Death, Colleges and Universities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Land Price
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Employers' aid varies in times of tragedy
Associated PressNEW YORK - The check covered Leora Sells' pay for the 10 days that followed April 19, 1995 - the time it took workers picking through the rubble of the Murrah Federal Building to recover and identify her body. That check was one of the few...Tags: Tampa, Companies and Corporations, Employers, Tragedy (genre), Health and Safety at School
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An awful year for Aon
Tribune national correspondentThe long journey back from the depths of last September continues for Aon Corp., the Chicago company most severely affected by the terrorist attacks. But for the firm, its employees and the families of the 175 Aon workers who were killed in the...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Disasters, Career and Workplace, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Economy, Business and Finance
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Update: U.S. under attack [archives]
As traffic on the World Wide Web came to a crawl the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, chicagotribune.com communicated with many of its readers via e-mail. This is the third of four Tribune Alerts that were sent that day to more than 19,800 readers -- and that...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Washington, DC, Metra, Crime, Law and Justice, San Francisco
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Families find way to keep spirit of loved ones alive
Scott Walter Cahill James Cahill was two blocks from ground zero on Sept. 11, close enough that when he ran out of his office building he could see the hole the first jet tore into the World Trade Center. Two things came to mind: One was a sense of...Tags: New York City, Long Island, Health, Colleges and Universities, Nevada
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NYC mutes blare, turns sorrowful
Tribune national correspondentFrom the mournful music of subway musicians to a neon roll call of the dead on the billboards of Times Square, unavoidable reminders of the horror that struck this city last September turned New York's normally loud blare into a sorrowful whisper...Tags: Times Square, San Mateo, Subway Transportation Industry, Transportation, Music Theater
Oct 15, 2001
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Oct 31, 2001
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