BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to an ordinance heretofore passed by the City Council which authorizes erection of honorary street-name signs, the Commissioner of Transportation shall take the necessary action for standardization of 2800-3100 North Central Avenue from West Wellington to West Diversey Avenue to be known as honorary "Lech Kaczynski Way".
RAY SUAREZ Alderman, 31st Ward
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and due publication.
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April 10, 2010
Polish President Dies in Jet Crash in Russia
By NICHOLAS KULISH, ELLEN BARRY and MICHAL PIOTROWSKI
This article was reported by Nicholas Kulish, Ellen Barry and Michal Piotrowski, and
written by Ms. Barry.
WARSAW — A plane carrying the Polish president and dozens of the country's top political and military leaders to the site of a Soviet massacre of Polish officers in World War II crashed in western Russia on Saturday, killing everyone on board.
President Lech Kaczynski's plane tried to land in a thick fog, missing the runway and snagging treetops about half a mile from the airport in Smolensk, scattering chunks of fuselage across a bare forest.
The crash came as a stunning blow to Poland, wiping out a large portion of the country's leadership in one fiery explosion. And in a chilling twist, it happened at the moment that Russia and Poland were beginning to come to terms with the killing of more than 20,000 members of Poland's elite officer corps in the same place 70 years ago.
"It is a damned place," former President Aleksander Kwasniewski told TVN24. "It sends shivers down my spine."
"This is a wound which will be very difficult to heal," he said.
A top Russian military official said air traffic controllers at the Smolensk airport had several times ordered the crew of the plane not to land, warned that it was descending below the glide path and recommended it reroute to another airport.
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