Our Lady of the Angels, Catholic School - Structure Fire

Provides Description of the Our Lady of the Angels catholic school fire in Chicago

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Education

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• OLA
• fire

[65bigjoe]

what is there now where the school was

[393martian]

@65bigjoe the school was rebuilt there

[nikonguy102]

Dec11958 today is the 53rd anniversary

[sonorra]

Good work kid. I was there.

unclescott58, great job assuming the obvious,

serpentarius51 (geesh) that memorial hasn't been in Holy Family church for a long time, It's in front of the OLA rectory. on Iowa St.

[unclescott58]

Very well done piece on this disaster. I'm assuming from seeing the narrator at the beginning of the film, that this film was a school project. If so, I hope he got an A. He did a great job telling the story of this very sad event.

[serpentarius51]

Survivors did place a memorial statue in the school. But the school itself was of a non sectarian group. The memorial statue was defaced. It was repaired and then taken over to Holy Family Chruch. Where it still is today.

[OldScottieBill]

@393martian Your OLA fire vid was great! I was 11 and in 5th grade at St Ann's, in the "Pilsen" neighborhood. I didn't know anyone afilliated with OLA at the time of the fire until years later, but this tragedy touched me very deeply and my heart still aches when I think about it. Many of those kids were my age and I couldn't understand why it happened. Actually, I still can't. Type in "The Soft Goodbye dagrampster" and check out my vid on the sublect. No naration just music and pics.

[65bigjoe]

thanks for letting me know.usaly when something this traget happens they tend.to put a memorial there.so thats why i was wondering