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Sep 27, 2021 · It burned for two days, destroying 17,450 buildings, scorching more than three square miles and displacing 100,000 people — nearly a third of Chicago’s population — before it ran out of real...
- In A ‘Fireproof’ City, Terra Cotta Is King
- Chicago Goes Big After The Fire
- The ‘I Will’ Spirit
The Great Fire, like many major historic events, gave birth to a myth: That after the fire, Chicago — particularly its downtown —immediately became a new city of early skyscrapers and fireproof buildings. Those things did happen, but it took a while. The city’s first real skyscraper, the 10-story, steel-framed Home Insurance Building at Adams and L...
Arguably, recovering from the Great Fire instilled the city with the will to build big, and if need be, wipe the deck clean and build again. “It’s a landscape on which we continue to paint anew the idea of what Chicago should be,” Russick said. “There is a feeling that we can rebuild bigger and better,” Hunt said. For instance, the city in 1887 und...
There is a fascinating, if somewhat overlooked, subtext to the Great Fire story: That for most, the will to stay in Chicago and rebuild was greater than the desire to flee and stay gone. “They don’t just head to [northwest Indiana],” said Russick, whose museum opens an exhibit on the blaze. City on Fire: Chicago 1871on Oct. 8. “They don’t go to St....
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The Chicago Fire of 1874 was a conflagration in Chicago, Illinois, that took place on July 14, 1874. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned forty-seven acres just south of the Loop, destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people.
Jul 7, 2021 · The fire of 1874 destroyed more than 80% of Black-owned property in Chicago. But Black people persisted and built vital cultural traditions and institutions. by Tonia Hill via The TRiiBE on July 7, 2021. ...8 hours, the fire burned more than 47 acres, destroying more than 800 buildings and killing 20 people.
May 26, 2020 · In fact, following the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing and the resulting politically charged trial and executions that, for all practical purposes, halted all speculative construction in Chicago for almost two years, it was in Minneapolis, and not New York or Chicago, where the first twenty-eight story skyscraper was proposed by Leroy Buffington i...
ABOUT THE CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM. The Chicago History Museum is situated on ancestral homelands of the Potawatomi people, who cared for the land until forced out by non-Native settlers. Established in 1856, the Museum is now at 1601 N. Clark Street in Lincoln Park, its third location.
Mar 17, 2003 · The ensuing day, at nearly the same hour in the afternoon, a fire, the result of carelessness, destroyed twenty-five buildings near Milwaukee Avenue and Sangamon Street, with a loss of $75, 750 and insurance of $40,700. Harper’s Weekly, August 1, 1874. Harper’s Weekly, December 19, 1874.
