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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 fire began in a neighborhood southwest of ...
The Great Fires of 1871 were a series of conflagrations that took place throughout the final days of September and first weeks of October 1871 in the United States, primarily targeting the Midwestern United States. These fires include the Great Chicago Fire, Peshtigo Fire, and Great Michigan Fire. In total, the fires burnt more than 3,000,000 ...
The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The tower was the only public building in the burned zone to survive, and is one of just a few of the surviving structures still standing. A few other buildings in the burned district did survive along with the tower. [5] [6] Ironically, the pumping station stopped working during ...
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Children. 9, including Joanna Snowden Porter. Anna Elizabeth Hudlun (née Lewis; 6 February 1840 – 21 November 1914) [1] was an African American humanitarian and civic worker, who earned the names "Fire Angel" and "Chicago's Grand Old Lady" for her work with victims of the city's great fires in 1871 and 1874. [2]
The Chicago Fire of 1874 took place on July 14. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned 47 acres (19 ha) [1] just south of the Loop, destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people. [2] The affected neighborhood had been home to Chicago's community of Jewish immigrants from Russia and ...
Website. www.wttw.com. WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by not-for-profit broadcaster Window to the World Communications, Inc., it is sister to commercial classical music radio station WFMT (98.7 FM).
Mayor Richard J. Daley cried. We don’t see this but rather are told about it in the first of the eight episodes in WTTW-Ch. 11′s “Chicago Stories” season which begins this weekend, with ...