Our Lady of Angels building in Joliet is coming down

Our Lady of Angels building in Joliet is coming down

The Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home building will be torn down with the future use of the Joliet property still to be determined.But Joliet Catholic Academy, which borders the site, has a right to first refusal on the land, said Sister Jeanne Bessette, president of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate.The Joliet-based order of nuns founded both the nursing home, which closed earlier this year, and St. Francis Academy, which later bec…