WHEN ANGELS WEPT is a semi fictitious story of the 1958 fire at the Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic School in Chicago, in which 92 children (ages 8 -14) and three nuns died. It made international news. Even the Vatican got involved. It caused cities all over the country to update their building codes to make schools safer. To this day it remains one of the worst tragedies in the history of Chicago and one of the worst school fires in the nation.
