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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic primary college in Chicago more than 50 years ago was an extraordinary minute of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it required the lives of 92 children and three nuns at Our Female of the Angels University, left many young families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and ruined a close-knit working-class community. This is the moving story of this fire and its own consequences, compiled by two journalists who've been obsessed with the events of this awful day in Dec 1958. It is a tale of standard people swept up in a disaster that shocked the nation. In gripping details, those who were there - children, teachers, firefighters - illustrate the fear, desperation, and anxiety that prevailed around the stricken college building on that wintry Monday evening. But beyond the flames, the storyplot of the fireplace at Our Female of the Angels became an enigma whose secret has deepened with time: Its cause was never officially described despite facts that it had been intentionally set by a troubled university student at the institution.
