The Blessed Mother statue, honoring the 95 victims and hundreds injured in the tragic December 1, 1958 fire at Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School, returned to OLA’s newly renovated Outreach Center on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, offered remarks and bless the statue during a 1:30 p.m. ceremony. The Outreach Center is housed on the grounds of the former school building at 3814 W. Iowa St. in Chicago. The statue was placed in Church of the Holy Family because of a special relationship the Church has had with members of the Chicago Fire Department dating to the 19th century. The statue was moved from Church of the Holy Family on Roosevelt Road starting at 11:30 a.m. Firemen from Chicago Fire Department safely attached the statue to the front of a fire truck. Bishop Lombardo offered a brief prayer and blessing before the fire truck departed Church of the Holy Family at approximately 12:30 p.m. Additional fire trucks were part of a lights and sirens procession from Church of the Holy Family to Mission OLA where firemen moved the statue into the Outreach Center lobby.