Family, friends and colleagues remember Tchoryk — of Ukrainian heritage — as a man with a permanent smile and many stories to tell.
Inside the church, celebrants surrounded the open casket and intoned a few hymns to begin the service. Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson also was in attendance.‘It just doesn’t happen. But today, it did’: Veteran fire lieutenant second to die in as many days following extra-alarm blaze at Gold Coast high-riseKnown as “Jon,” Tchoryk, 55, died last Wednesday battling a fire in a high-rise on the city’s lakefront in the Gold Coast.
Tchoryk was married, had several children and was “an active outdoorsman, a motorcyclist and a Navy veteran,” fire officials said.Firefighter Jermaine Pelt, 49, died Tuesday during a West Pullman blaze. A visitation for Pelt will be held today at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W. 103rd St., in Oak Lawn from 3 to 10 p.m., a statement from the Fire Department said.Advertisement
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