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The La Salle Hotel was a historic hotel located on the northwest corner of La Salle Street and Madison Street in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was designed by Holabird & Roche and opened in 1909. [1] After a major fire in 1946, the hotel was refurbished and reopened in 1947.
On June 19, 1946, two weeks after the La Salle Hotel fire, a fire broke out in the six-story 200-room Canfield Hotel in Dubuque, Iowa, killing 19 people. [1] The fire started around 11:30 pm in a closet near the cocktail lounge on the ground floor and destroyed the four-story section of the building, which was built in 1891.
1926 January 23 ... Oklahoma, hangar fire, killed 10. June 5 – LaSalle Hotel Fire in Chicago, Illinois, killed 61. ... December 1 – La Coajira nightclub fire in ...
La Salle Hotel: Chicago June 5, 1946 61 Electrical fire likely Winecoff Hotel: 59 m [8] Atlanta: December 7, 1946 119 Deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history Ronan Point: 64 m [9] London United Kingdom: May 16, 1968 4 Gas explosion caused partial collapse of the highrise. 1 New York Plaza: 192 m [10] New York City United States
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Deadliest nightclub fire ever, and second-deadliest structure fire in U.S. history; loss of life due to blocked exits; burn victims were among the first treated with penicillin 476–1,000+ 1927 Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster: Industrial, silicosis: Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: 178 admitted deaths, 476 with congressional inquiry, 1,000+ by ...
1926–1969 Lion Country Safari: Irvine: 1970–1984 ... La Salle Township: 1907–1962 ... Rebuilt after 1925 fire; land reconfigured as concert venue in 1981. ...