‘He always made you laugh:’ Family mourns ironworker who fell from scaffolding

Brother remembers worker killed in fall from scaffolding as 'funny, super chill guy who had your back'

Patrick O'Donnell last saw his brother David four days before the construction incident that took his life.Their nephew was being baptized in Tinley Park, so Patrick O'Donnell flew in from Colorado. He and his brother, who lived in Oak Forest, spent time catching up, talking about music. Patrick O'Donnell told his brother how sharp he looked for the baptism. It was one of the last things he said to him. About 11:45 a.m. Thursday, David O'Donnell…

‘He always made you laugh:’ Family mourns ironworker who fell from scaffolding

OAK FOREST, Ill. — An ironworker who fell to his death at the site of the University of Chicago's future cancer center was remembered Friday as an active, hard-working man who cherished the outdoors and the relationships he'd made. 'We're four brothers, and to lose one of us has just left a giant gap," Patrick O'Donnell said Friday. A day earlier, 27-year-old David O'Donnell was some nine stories up on scaffolding when he fell to the constructio…

1 worker dead, another in critical condition after scaffolding collapse at U. of C. construction site

A 27-year-old iron worker is dead and another is in critical condition after falling eight stories from a scaffolding collapse at the construction site of the University of Chicago’s cancer center on Thursday.