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Man burned to death outside Our Lady of Angels mission where nearly 100 children and nuns died in 1958 blaze

Firefighters responding to a rubbish fire found the body of a 62-year-old man with fatal burns at the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, the site where a fire ravaged a school, killing 92 children and three nuns in 1958. At 3:05 p.m. Thursday, Chicago police officers and and firefighters were called to 3808 W. Iowa St., Mission of Our Lady of the Angels, for a rubbish fire and a tree that was on fire, according to the Chicago fire department and a Chicago…
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