David Cowan was born in Chicago in 1963. A U.S. Air Force veteran and former award-winning newspaper reporter, he holds degrees in journalism and political science from Southern Illinois University. David is also the author of Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City.
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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost fifty years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and th... SEE MORE