There are NO sprinklers in the building. Built in 1930 to 1934. There is NO ordinance in Chicago mandating retrofitting older buildings with sprinklers, but there is ANOTHER meeting on Friday to review...how timely of them...
Seemed from the video that the buiding was of more recent vintage -- not art-deco at all. One would think, given their past experience - what with the entire city burning to the ground -- that Chicagoans (Chicagoites?) would have madadeted retrofits of hi-rises long ago. Perhaps they thought, since the cow didn't survive the fire, that the problem no longer existed.