[Indy Pendance]

In another article:

Charges considered in nightclub fire

Hundreds of people packed into the second-floor E2 club on the city's South Side stampeded down a stairwell after security guards broke up a fight and someone sprayed pepper gas or Mace. A lawyer for the club operators suggested someone might have shouted a warning about a terrorist attack.

[Ciexyz]

B-I-I-I-I-I-G Lawsuit on the way.

[Chi-townChief]

I heard some of this stuff on the radio early this morning; next Tuesday is election day in Chicago and a lot of people are hustling to turn this into an "issue."

[Revolting cat!]

From the linked article:

"Mr. Grant said his clients had rented the club to private promoters, a firm called Envy Entertainment"

[ecru]

There was a fire at the nightclub too?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I despise Jesse Jackson, but I don't particularly find his quote here offensive. Fears of a terrorist attack probably did add to the general level of panic. It's way down the list of things which caused this disaster, but it probably was a contributing factor to some degree.

I was on a commuter train this morning when one end of the car started filling up with smoke. I watched as certain people bolted for the door much more franticaly than they would have if we weren't at "code orange".

[doug from upland]

A young black woman was just impregnated by Jesse Jackson. He blamed George Bush.

[TankerKC]

Help me out here...where does Jackson blame Bush?

[cavtrooper21]

Something tells me that this will backfire in JJ's face the way the DC sniper made Caylpso Louie look like what he is. These so called champions of the oppressed do more harm to the monorities they claim to represent than the people they claim to be fighting. Next they will try and sue GW for "civil rights violations" because of this horrible incident irregardless of the fact that they themselves contributed to it by helping the "club" to remain open in spite of the city's efforts to shut it down for safty/fire code violations...

[Alberta's Child]

One of Jesse Jackson's sons owns a major Anheuser-Busch distributor in the Chicago area. A little research will probably show that this distributor had an exclusive contract to sell beer to this illegal establishment. Anyone want to bet on that one?

[CyberAnt]

And ... Bush is at fault because ...???

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Once again,African leadership fails to take responsibility!

[Diddle E. Squat]

From Poverty Pimp to Speakeasy Pimp?