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Our Lady of the Angels was a grammar school comprising kindergarten through eighth-grade education. It was located at 909 North Avers Avenue in the Humboldt Park area of Chicago's West Side, on the northeast corner of West Iowa Street and North Avers Avenue (some sources describe the school as "in Austin"). [3]
The rebuilt campus of Our Lady of the Angels School. In 1959–1960, a new Our Lady of the Angels School, designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Barry and Kay, was constructed according to the latest required fire safety standards; safety features included enclosed stairways, automatic sprinkler and alarm systems, and the use of fireproof coatings on doors instead of flammable paint and ...
Our Lady of Vilna (merged with St. Paul to form St. Paul/Our Lady of Vilna, building closed) Closed in 1988: [15] Notre Dame de Chicago School; St. Mary School; St. Francis of Assisi (merged with Our Lady of the Angels School, building closed) (Our Lady of the Angels closed in 1999) Closed in 1990: [15] Holy Trinity School
Saint Mary of the Angels (Polish: Kościół Matki Boskiej Anielskiej) is a historic church of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 1850 North Hermitage Avenue in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, it is an example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches.
Association House of Chicago, which includes Association House High School, is located on the former hospital property. [78] Franklin Boulevard Hospital, in the community area, [79] began operations in the 1930s. [80] Franklin Boulevard treated victims of the Our Lady of the Angels fire. [79]
In addition to regular graves, Queen of Heaven was the first area cemetery to have religious shrine sections. One of these is the "Shrine of the Holy Innocents," where young victims of the 1958 Our Lady of the Angels School Fire are interred. In these sections families could purchase plots for all its members all at once, and not incur future ...
Our Lady of the Angels Mission Center 3808 W Iowa St, Chicago Our Lady of Fatima (Avondale) 3051 N Christiana Ave, Chicago Founded in 1942, closed in 2020 [33] Our Lady of Grace 2455 N Hamlin Ave, Chicago St. John Berchmans 2519 W Logan Blvd, Chicago St. Francis of Assisi 932 N Kostner Ave, Chicago Part of San Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio Parish
On December 1, 1958, a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago destroyed part of the school and killed 92 students and three nuns. While visiting survivors in the hospital and viewing the deceased in the city morgue, Meyer was overcome with grief.