Dense smoke rolls from Our Lady of the Angels grade school at 909 N. Avers Ave. on Dec. 1, 1958, in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. Parents watch as firefighters battle a fire and pull ...

Our Lady of the Angels School– destroyed in a tragic 1958 fire that killed 95 people, rebuilt in 1960 and then closed this month because of low enrollment–could find new life again this fall ...

Perhaps one of the most tragic examples of this played itself out 50 years ago in Chicago, where a daytime school fire killed 92 children and 3 teachers at Our Lady of Angels elementary school.

We pulled up near the southeast corner of Our Lady of the Angels School, a two-story, U-shaped building with a brick exterior and wood-lathe and plaster interior, built in 1910. The second floor ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new set of sprinklers was unveiled Wednesday at the site of the Our Lady of Angels School fire, where 92 students and three nuns were killed in 1958. The tragedy occurred on ...

Friday marked 65 years since the fire at the Our Lady of the Angels Catholic School, at 909 N. Avers Ave. in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. The tragedy Dec. 1, 1958, claimed the lives of 92 ...

Donation Options Search Search Search In this Dec. 1, 1958, file photo, firefighters battle the blaze at Our Lady of the Angels School. 92 children and three teachers were killed. AP Share Sixty ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Sixty-five years ago Friday ...

On Monday afternoon, Sister Mary Cleary, principal of Our Lady of Angels School in Kingsbridge, received a phone call she wasn’t expecting. Someone wanted to donate $100,000 to her beloved ...

who met in the hospital after being severely injured during the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958. Irene, the longest hospitalized survivor of the fire at nine months, came home on ...

On December 1, 1958, a devastating fire swept through Our Lady of the Angels school. On December 1, 1958, a devastating fire swept through Our Lady of the Angels school in Chicago's Humboldt Park ...