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St. Ignatius community gathers to pray for injured hockey players

St. Ignatius College Prep students, faculty and staff gathered with community members Nov. 14 at the Church of the Holy Family, 1080 W. Roosevelt Road, to pray for members of the school’s JV hockey team who were injured in a bus crash Nov. 12.

Jesuit Father Arnold Damen provided critical aid after Great Chicago Fire

The efforts of Jesuit Father Arnold Damen and his confreres in the Society of Jesus in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire were neither the first nor the last word in the Jesuits’ efforts to provide social services to the immigrants who populated the West Side of Chicago in the late 19th century, but they do provide a remarkable illustration, according to Chicago historian Ellen Skerrett.

Local historian compiling history of St. Ignatius Prep

Ellen Skerrett has taken over a table in the corner of the Brunswick Room on the top floor of St. Ignatius College Prep, pouring over the archives of the school and the Jesuit community in Chicago as she works on a book to be published in honor of the school’s 150th anniversary.

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