Overview
- Chicago Fire Department announced a private funeral at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home with burial at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery.
- Supporters are invited to stand along the procession route from 103rd Street and Cicero Avenue, south to 111th Street, then west to 6001 W. 111th St.
- Altman, 32, died after he fell through a collapsing first floor into a basement that was fully on fire while battling a Rogers Park apartment blaze.
- Police charged a man with murder and arson, alleging he started the fire by igniting a mattress in the building’s basement.
- The funeral was postponed when his wife went into labor, and the family later announced the birth of their daughter, Evelyn Rose.