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[35] Sweeping changes in school fire safety regulations were enacted nationwide. Some 16,500 older school buildings in the United States were brought up to code within one year of the disaster. Ordinances to strengthen Chicago's fire code and new amendments to the Illinois state fire code were passed.
The new sewer system featured innovations such as manhole covers, which eased access to and cleaning of the sewers. However, sewage still flowed into the lake and polluted the city's drinking water. In 1863, work began on a two-mile Chicago lake tunnel , sixty feet under the lake, out to a new intake crib . that would draw cleaner water farther ...
The first sewer systems in the United States were built in the late 1850s in Chicago and Brooklyn. [86]: 43 In the United States, the first sewage treatment plant using chemical precipitation was built in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1890. [96]: 29
Children returning to class following a fire drill at a Chicago elementary school, 1973. Photo by John H. White.. According to John L. Rury, the first small private schools were established as Chicago began to expand in the late 1830s.
The fire killed 92 students and three nuns; in response, fire safety improvements were made to public and private schools across the United States. [ 88 ] April 13, 1992, billions of dollars in damage was caused by the Chicago Flood , when a hole was accidentally drilled into the long-abandoned (and mostly forgotten) Chicago Tunnel system ...
The Clean Water Act in 1972 made way for the deep tunnels. Across the country, people started waking up to the importance of freshwater after Lake Erie’s Cuyahoga River caught fire for a 13th ...
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]
Chicago Fire of 1874; Chicago Union Stock Yards fire (1910) ... Our Lady of the Angels School fire; W. Wincrest Nursing Home fire; Wingfoot Air Express crash