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The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2 ) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [ 3 ]
The summer of 1871 saw a prolonged drought.A report from the National Weather Service in Chicago stated that "leaves had started dropping as early as July." Only 134 mm of rain had fallen in Chicago compared to the average of more than 230 mm. Lansing, Michigan, reported 70% of the average and Thunder Bay, Michigan, reported just 64%.
The district developed in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and was mainly the home to middle-class residents relocating from immigrant neighborhoods. While the district's residents were mainly Western European, particularly German and Irish, in its first decades, the area became predominantly Italian around 1900 and remained so until ...
Marshall Field followed in 1871 with a Richard Morris Hunt design. [12] Prairie Avenue was the most posh Chicago address by the time of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [11] 1871 Map of Chicago: The shaded area was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. Many of South Michigan Avenue's elegant villas were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ...
"The whole earth, or all we saw of it, was a lurid yellowish red," wrote one survivor. "Everywhere dust, smoke, flames, heat, thunder of falling walls, crackle of fire, hissing of water, panting of engines, shouts, braying of trumpets, roar of wind, confusion, and uproar." Date: 1871: Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-23436) Author
The Great Fire of 1871 may refer to any of several large fires in the Midwestern United States that began on October 8, 1871: 1871 Great Chicago Fire; Great Michigan Fire; Port Huron Fire of 1871 in Port Huron, Michigan; Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin
1871: October 8 – 10, the Great Chicago Fire. [6] [11] 1872 Montgomery Ward in business. Establishment of the first Black fire company in the city. The original library, inside the old water tower on the site that is now the Rookery Building. This former water tower was the site of the original public library, exterior view
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started in the barn behind the cottage of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary at 137 (after 1909, 558) DeKoven Street. [2] Although the popular story is that a cow kicked over a lantern to start the fire, Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy. [3]