Firefighter Robert R. Schaack, age 37, of the Chicago Fire Department died with four other firefighters in a building collapse during the Reliance Hotel on December 17, 1953.
He became a member of the Chicago Fire Department on May 10, 1948.
Firefighter Schaack was also a World War II Veteran and was wounded in Okinawa.
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