TV crew's blast hurts 4 on N. Side // Elevator shaft walls blown out

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: September 6, 1986| Author: Tom Page Seibel | Copyright information

Four people were injured in a North Side apartment building last night when a "simulated" explosion set off by a television-series production crew blew out the walls of an elevator shaft.

The explosion injured a couple dining in the Medici on Surf restaurant, on the ground floor of the Park Lane Hotel, 2850 N. Sheridan, a crew member on the fourth floor and a fourth person whose whereabouts at the time wasn't known.

Hugh and Karen McBride, both 29 and who live nearby on Oak...

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