John Hancock Center Scaffold Collapse

On Saturday, 9 March 2002 at approximately 1:45 p.m., a 100-ft long, suspended scaffold platform fell from the west face of the 100-story John Hancock Center in Chicago, dropping debris along an arc from the northwest corner of the building to the building's south face. The scaffold wreckage killed three motorists on East Chestnut Street and severely injured several other passers-by. In early 2000, the building's commercial and residential...