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 ...

Did you know Ron Howard and Kurt Russell's '90s firefighter action hit Backdraft had a sequel? Well, if you didn't, you do ...

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Our Flick of the Week is ”Backdraft,” which is a better film about fire than firemen. The fire sequences are easily the best ever, but the storyline about quarreling Chicago firemen brothers battling ...

The former Chicago firefighter who served as the inspiration for Robert De Niro's arson investigator role in the blockbuster film "Backdraft" has died. WSPY News reports that Donald Rimgale passed ...

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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 ...

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 ...