The Great Chicago Fire

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The Great Chicago Fire

Chicago in October 1871 was high and dry. It was a very warm evening, with
gusty winds coming off the prairie, blowing to the Northeast persistently all day
long. The city was a ripe kindling, waiting to burn. Most of the buildings in then
“modern” day Chicago were built of wood, as were some 600 miles of sidewalk
and 55 miles of street, in which yellow pine was used to elevate pedestrians
above the marshy ground on which Chicago’s nearly 300,000 residents sat on.
There was also much deception in the number of “fireproof” buildings in
Chicago. Many of the wooden buildings were just covered over with sheets of
marble, or tin painted to look like stone. Even the Chicago Chamber of
Commerce Building, which many of the citizens of Chicago pointed to with
pride, was said to have been fireproof, but all the carvings were done out of
wood, and the mansard roof was a flammable tar and wood. The grounds were
readied, to a frightening degree.
The fire wa...

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