George J. Schuller, 75, a retired deputy district chief of the Chicago Fire Department who fought the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958 and founded the department’s photography unit ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A nun is carried down the ladder by firefighters at the Our Lady of the Angels school ... before WTTW-TV mentioned the website during the airing of the fire ...

Matt Plovanich of Chicago was only 10 when he experienced the Our Lady of the Angels School fire that would change his thinking and decisions throughout life. Mark Welsh/[email protected] ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — Even over 60 years later, the Our Lady of the Angels fire haunts those who managed to survive one of the deadliest school fires ... by with a ladder before he had to make the decision ...

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 ...

The statue of Mary was commissioned as a memorial for those who died in Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, when 92 children and three sisters died. "Huge flame shot right out from where I ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Constance Piscopo, a mother who had three of her children in school during the 1958 Our Lady of Angels fire, one who died, attends a ceremony at Queen of ...

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 ...