Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School Fire, December 1, 1958
The inferno that consumed Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels on Dec. 1, 1958, opened a pit of sorrow that still seems bottomless. Add to StumbleUpon Add to digg Add to Reddit Add to del.icio.us.
Eighty-seven children and three nuns died on December 1, 1958 as a result of the Our Lady of the Angels fire. Three more critically injured children died before Christmas followed by two more in 1959, the last one on August 9.
On the first floor at Our Lady of the Angels School, where Mary Ellen Hobik was taking an English test, the nun in charge of her fourth-grade class dismissed the alarm as a mistake. "I was glad, because I knew I was doing well on the
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