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The next city council meeting is 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15. Please note the change in day.
Ma & Pa Kettle Days bingo is 1 p.m. Sunday, March 19 at the Senior Center.
On Dec. 1, 1958, while I was a student nurse living in Chicago, at the Presbyterian-St. Luke’s School of Nursing dorm. There was a fire at Our Lady of Angels Catholic School in Chicago. In that fire, 92 students and three nuns died.
Our dorm was across the street from Cook County Hospital. The injured children, some who were burned and some who were injured from jumping out of the windows, were taken to five hospitals in Chicago,...