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2. chicago.suntimes.com › 2021/10/8 › 22677929How the Great Chicago Fire changed Chicago architecture ...

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   Oct 8, 2021 · Then on July 14, 1874. during a hot, dry summer, Chicago was struck by a second great blaze, although smaller than the first one, that began near current day Roosevelt Road and Wells Street and ...

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3. www.chicagotribune.com › 2021/09/27 › chicago-builtChicago built back from the Great Fire in just two years. Now ...

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   Sep 27, 2021 · It took another major fire in 1874 before Chicago builders shifted en masse from wood to more expensive fireproof materials like terra cotta, mostly because insurers demanded it, Smith said.

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   Was Chicago a 'disaster waiting to happen'?

   • Smith, author of “Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City,” said a drought, an overtaxed fire department and a city built almost entirely out of wood made Chicago a “disaster waiting to happen.” What happened next — Chicago’s so-called Great Rebuilding — was perhaps even more remarkable.

   Chicago built back from the Great Fire in just two years. Now, 150

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   What happened during the Great Chicago Fire?

   • The Great Chicago Fire wiped out a third of the bustling young city in two days of raging flames, destroying nearly every building in its downtown. Then, in a part of the story that never made it into song, Chicago immediately began rebuilding, laying the foundation for the great world city it would become.

   Chicago built back from the Great Fire in just two years. Now, 150

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   How did the Great Chicago Fire change Chicago?

   • The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 — terrible, costly, deadly — changed the city in myriad ways. And it had a big hand in making Chicago an architectural capital. I t’s been 150 years since the last embers from the Great Fire flickered out, leaving behind a smoldering city with the will and the money to rebuild. And it did.

   How the Great Fire changed Chicago architecture

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   What happened in Chicago in 1871?

   • On a hot and dry October night in 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, starting a blaze that rose up from her modest Near Southwest Side home, leapt the Chicago River and burned down a large portion of the nascent prairie metropolis.Or so goes the legend of the Great Chicago […]

   Chicago built back from the Great Fire in just two years. Now, 150

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   Oct 8, 2021 · Today, October 8th, 2021, marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The three-day blaze, which killed an estimated 300 people and destroyed over 17,000 structures, is said to have been a catalyst in the history of modern design, sparking, as a direct result of the...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2021/10/19 › artsRevisiting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 - The New York Times

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   Oct 19, 2021 · The end of the exhibition discusses fire safety reforms in place today. For example, a fire that swept the city in 1874 led to a ban on the construction of wood-frame buildings downtown. Steel ...

7. news.wttw.com › 2021/10/07 › chicago-history-museumChicago History Museum Remembers Great Fire of 1871

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   Oct 7, 2021 · Friday, Oct. 8, marks 150 years since the start of the Great Chicago Fire, which began on a Sunday night in the O’Leary’s barn on the near South Side. The fire burned until Tuesday morning as far north as Lincoln Park. A new exhibit offers a fresh look at the calamity that scorched the city in 1871, a century and a half ago.

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8. www.smithsonianmag.com › smart-news › chicagos-greatChicago’s Great Fire, 150 Years Later - Smithsonian Magazine

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   Oct 13, 2021 · October 13, 2021. Chicago's Great Fire sparked on October 8, 1871 and raged for more than 24 hours. Chicago History Museum, ICHi-002954. On a hot fall night in 1871, the O’Leary family awoke...

9. www.bunkhistory.org › resources › the-chicago-fireThe Chicago Fire of 1874 and the World’s Columbian Exposition ...

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   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.