page_title: Archer Heights, Chicago
section_title: Honored residents
hierarchical_section_title: Archer Heights, Chicago / Honored residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Omar E. Torres Way, Honorary street sign
context_page_description: Archer Heights is a community area in Chicago, Illinois, one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago.
  Archer Avenue runs from south of Chicago's downtown area, through the southwest side of Chicago and beyond into the southwest suburbs, along what was once a Native American trail. The neighborhood is bounded by the Stevenson Expressway to the north, the CTA Orange Line to the south, the Corwith railyard to the east, and the railroad tracks/Knox Avenue to the west.
context_section_description: 48th Street and Harding Avenue dedicated an honorary street sign to recognize Henry J. "Hank" Rutkowski Sr. "Rutkowski is a decorated World War II veteran and former prisoner of war", he received the Good Conduct Medal, the Air Medal, the European Theatre of War Medal, and the Prisoner of War Medal. Following the war he worked for 40 years for Schulze & Birch, he retired in 1993.
  47th Street and Keeler Avenue dedicated a street sign for Omar Torres. "Private First Class Omar E. Torres died in combat in Iraq, 2007." Torres was one of three children, his sister Oralia and brother, Oscar Jr. Where raised by Doris and Oscar Torres Sr.
caption: Image of Imar E. Torres Way, Honorary Street Sign (May 2016)
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