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   Sep 27, 2021 · PUBLISHED: September 27, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: October 4, 2021 at 10:15 p.m. 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...

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

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   • 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...

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   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...

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   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 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.

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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 […]

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   • 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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   • 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.

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4. archinect.com › features › articleThe Great Chicago Fire at 150: Architectural ... - Archinect

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   Oct 8, 2021 · Oct 8, '21 6:32 PM EST. 0. Currier & Ives lithograph depicting the dramatic scenes of the Great Chicago Fire from October 8–10, 1871. Source: Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-23436). Today, October 8th, 2021, marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

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5. chicagoreader.com › city-on-fire-chicago-1871“City on Fire: Chicago 1871” - Chicago Reader

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   Sep 23, 2021 · > Home » “City on Fire: Chicago 1871” Sponsored. “City on Fire: Chicago 1871” The Chicago History Museum’s newest exhibition explores what happened before, during, and after the...

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6. www.chicagotribune.com › 2021/09/30 › scores-ofScores of Chicago property records burned in the Great Fire ...

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   Sep 30, 2021 · News. Scores of Chicago property records burned in the Great Fire of 1871. Their destruction — and re-creation — might hold lessons for the future. On Chicago’s East Side in the middle of an ...

7. 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.

8. chicago.suntimes.com › 2021/10/8 › 22715164The incomplete story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ...

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   Oct 8, 2021 · One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, on the night of Oct. 8, 1871, a fire in a barn on DeKoven Street really did swoop up in the wind and sweep across Chicago, leaping the river twice, for the next 36 hours. It really did gut the heart of our town, leveling some 18,000 buildings over 3 1 ⁄ 2 square miles.