The city’s hopes for a glitzy benefit premiere of Backdraft, Universal Pictures’ $40 million summer picture about Chicago fire fighters, appear to be going up in flames. With $20 million of its ...

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Kurt Russell's Stephen yells orders during a fire in Backdraft - Universal Pictures In Ron Howard's "Backdraft," Chicago Fire Department firefighters (and siblings) Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian ...

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"[We] just never knew when the fire was going to get away from us," recalls the director, who says the cast and crew bonded over working with live fire on the 1991 film and reveals Robert De Niro's ...

Dec. 10--Chicago firefighters were tasked with an emotional assignment in the South Loop on Wednesday: Trying to save a historic former fire station from being destroyed in an extra-alarm fire. "It's ...

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A Hinsdale mansion that has been owned by a railroad executive and a prominent publisher and, in the movie “Backdraft,” a corrupt Chicago Alderman, is for sale. Built in 1890, the home, seven bedrooms ...