Chicago and the Midwest, 1871 Chicago is the great American fire everyone thinks of. “The great legend of Chicago is that it’s a ‘phoenix city’ — it almost instantly rebuilt itself ...

such as the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871, historian Rebecca Rideal believes the actual number to more likely be in the hundreds. As well as so much destruction, the fire gave way to new buildings ...

Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... interested to pick up large cinders about our house... We learned of the great fire that had occurred the night before... It was a wonder that these huge ...

The tech incubator is not named for the Great Fire of 1871, but rather what came next with engineers, architects and inventors banding together to build a new city. "Our space may evolve ...

It seems wherever we look right now, there is fire. There are embers. Trump and his bootlickers designed it that way." ...

In Chicago last week aldermen meditated on a resolution to purchase as a memorial the site where famed Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern that started the great fire of 1871.† ...

News soon came that extensive forest fires were raging in the counties about us. Many of these ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Inspired by "the story and spirit of Chicagoans," the new badge’s imagery reflects a key moment in the Windy City’s history, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that laid the foundations for the ...