Jose Santiago

"Every time he went to work, I worried," Daniel Capuano's wife, Julie, said Wednesday afternoon.

Inspector General Joe Ferguson said the Department can save $1.2 million a year by moving firefighters.

Investigators found a possible accelerant on one of the walls of a stairwell, officials said.  

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said, "The entire department will be out, we'll be out in uniform."

The city insisted the lottery is not being weighted by race.

Capt. Herbert T. Johnson, of Morgan Park, died while fighting a house fire on Nov. 2, 2012.

KONKOL: Dan Fabrizio and Steve Chikerotis proudly leave the Fire Department better than they found it.

Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago testified before City Council budget hearings.

The Chicago Fire Department said 12 of the 16 deaths could have been prevented by smoke alarms.

CTA, Metra and Amtrak trains were all affected by the weather.

A federal report criticized the Chicago Fire Department in the death of Capt. Herbert Johnson a year ago.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said legal woes halted Fire Department hires, but police OT was a deliberate decision.

Fire Commissioner Jose Santiago called the inspector general's audit on response times "inaccurate."