Along with the history of the Our Lady of the Angels School fire, new episodes will take on the reversal of the flow of the Chicago River, the Pullman Strike and more.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Aerial view of Our Lady of the Angels grade school on fire Dec. 1, 1958, in Chicago. The fire, on the city's West Side, took the lives of 92 children and three nuns.
The fire started in the basement and its spread was swift and deadly. Some students jumped from second-story windows, others remained at their desks, hands clasped in prayers that went unanswered.News footage of limp bodies being carried by firefighters from the building is jarring. But the documentary’s power comes from the memories of now gray-haired men and women remembering their terror.
That would, of course, become the inspiration for the band’s huge hit, “Don’t Stop Believin’”, written by Cain and bandmates Steve Perry and Neal Schon. But Cain still says, “It seemed so unfair.” That was likely why Mayor Richard J. Daley cried when he visited the smoldering school. Watching this film, produced and written by Peter D. Marks, you might too.The executive producer for the “Chicago Stories” series is Anna Chadwick Gardner.
They and thousands of workmen living in miserable conditions somehow succeeded in reversing the flow of the river, steering it away from the lake and, eventually, into the Mississippi River.This feat did not thrill the citizens of St. Louis, resulting in decades of legal tussles. You’ll hear, as usual, from some experts, which include author and historian Michael Williams and Allison Arwady, the city’s former Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, ever articulate.
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