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 ...

On Dec. 1, 1958, a fire consumed Our Lady of the Angels grade school on the West Side of Chicago, killing 92 children and three nuns. A wire story from that day captured a fragment of the ...

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 ...

It was about 20 minutes before the end of classes at Our Lady of the Angels School on the city’s West Side. A fire in a stairwell had been burning for some time when the Main Fire Alarm Office ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Call it the second coming. A Bay Ridge Catholic school that was slated to close this spring will reopen in the fall with a new name and new leadership. The Our Lady of Angels school was on a list of ...

The new athletics and activities center at Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic School in Newport Beach is a project the school’s community and leaders have long hoped would come to fruition.

Historian Jim Gibbons, in partnership with the Hoffman Estates Commission for Senior Citizens, will share a presentation on the Our Lady of the Angels School fire at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1.