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When does a nightclub disaster turn into a political controversy? When the city is Chicago and one of the players is Jesse Jackson. The E2 nightclub had long been a scene. Police had been summoned there 80 times in the past two years, and residents of the neighborhood, a few blocks south of downtown, had nothing good to say about the rowdy closing-time crowds. So when 21 young African Americans were killed on Monday in a stampede down the club's narrow front stairwell and the city revealed it had ordered the club closed last summer for safety violations...
...that the fault for the disaster is widespread: overcrowding, obstructed auxiliary exits, a security guard's careless use of choking pepper spray on a packed dance floor to stop a fight. As for the city, it admitted that its enforcement policy had to be fixed. Its inspector visited the nightclub only in the daytime when it was closed, never at night...
...been more than a decade since Great White recorded a recognizable hit, which is one reason the band was playing the Station, a cramped and sweaty nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., last Thursday night. The venue often is host to bands whose popularity peaked in the 1980s, and when Great White took the stage shortly after 11 p.m., the band decided to provide the audience with a reminder of its heavy-metal past. Sets of "gerbs"--sparking pyrotechnic fountains--shot up from the stage as the band kicked into its first song, Desert Moon. Within seconds, flames crawled...
Only with the light of dawn did the full, gruesome picture reveal itself. By Friday night, rescuers had recovered 96 corpses from the ruins of the Station. Some 200 people were injured, at least 25 critically. The calamity was the second deadliest nightclub fire in the U.S. in the past 50 years and the fourth deadliest nightclub fire in American history. It came just four days after 21 people were trampled to death during a panicked stampede at the E2 club in downtown Chicago (see box). As is usually the case, the tragedies were uniquely disastrous, each made more catastrophic...
...recent nightclub tragedies in Chicago, Ill. and Providence, R.I. strike with especial poignance to the college crowd. The sad and painful death of so many people resonates with students—many of whom frequent nightclubs regularly. It seems that disasters such as these could strike at a club near Harvard, or any college campus, in the plainest and most ordinary of circumstances...