VIEWPOINTS ON FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY found that city building inspectors had made dozens of visits in response to complaints and doled out more than 150 code violations in the five years prior to the fire. New violations for broken doors and missing smoke detectors were issued just months before the blaze. Yet documents and interviews reveal that these unsafe conditions were never fixed and that no smoke alarms sounded the morning of the fire. Instead, the landlord was granted multiple extensions to fix the issues, with no follow-up. Through a painstaking examination of public documents, Reyes and Hopkins identified 42 fatal fires in Chicago buildings between 2014 and 2019 where city officials had a well-documented history of code violations yet didn't move swiftly-or at all-to compel landlords to fix safety issues. A total of 61 people, 23 of them under age 17, died in those fires. The investigation, a collaboration between the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago-based nonprofit Better NFPA .ORG/JOURNAL * NFPA JOURNAL | 35http://nfpa.org/journal