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Niles VFW Post 7712 (now Post 3579) Color Guard marches the Colors into the Veterans Memorial Waterfall on Memorial Day, 2012 with rifleman Jan Tchoryk in the unit (far right). (Tom Robb/Journal) Chicago Fire Dept. Lt. Jan “Jonny” Michael Tchoryk, 55, a Navy veteran and life member of Niles VFW Post 3579, will be laid

Chicago Fire officials announced funeral arrangements for two firefighters who died in the line of duty last week.

Norridge will shut down Cumberland Avenue Thursday April 13 from 9 am to noon for the funeral of Chicago Fire Lt. Jan Tchoryk.

A Chicago firefighter was hospitalized while responding to a two-alarm fire Monday morning at a building in Bridgeport on the South Side.

Chicago firefighter Jermaine Pelt and Lt. Jan Tchoryk died last week fighting separate fires.

Chicago fire officials have announced funeral arrangements for two Chicago firefighters who died last week in the line of duty.

An emotional balloon release took place outside a Pullman high school Friday as family, friends and community members remembered a dedicated public servant who...

Services have been finalized for next week following shocking deaths of two Chicago firefighters

CHICAGO (AP) — A firefighter who died while battling a blaze in a high-rise building on Chicago’s North Side died of a heart attack, autopsy results r...

For many in the Chicago Fire Department, the two firefighters who perished in separate back-to-back blazes this week weren’t just colleagues.