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  • Our Lady of the Angels School Fire - 50 Years Later

    11/28/2008 4:01:47 PM PST · by re_tail20 · 13 replies · 1,134+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | November 28, 2008 | Maureen O'Donnell
    It was a day when the lives of 92 schoolchildren were stolen in a place where their parents thought they would be safe: their school. The inferno that consumed Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels on Dec. 1, 1958, opened a pit of sorrow that still seems bottomless. The survivors have replayed those agonizing minutes in their minds countless times -- and all the things that went wrong, increasing the body count. In the strong, silent '50s, survivors, victims' families and rescuers were urged not to dwell on the blaze. God took the good ones, they were told. Get on...