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Sep 27, 2021 · The Chicago area was hard-hit by the pandemic, with unemployment spiking to a non-seasonally adjusted high of 16.4% in April 2020, as employers laid off and furloughed workers during statewide ...
Sep 25, 2020 · September 25, 2020. As I write this, best estimates put the worldwide death toll for COVID-19 at a little over 930,000 people worldwide. At this point, one can only guess at the economic damage. Some of us have lost loved ones or property. This has been a devastating year for many of us. Dwight Moody also faced tremendous tragedies.
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Jul 7, 2021 · In 1870, there were more than 3,600 Black people in Chicago, and the population grew to more than 14,000 by 1890, according to Dr. Christopher Robert Reed’s “Black Chicago’s First Century, Volume I: 1833-1900.” The 1874 fire became known as the Second Chicago Fire.
Oct 8, 2021 · Not only was he responsible for bringing John Root to Chicago, but in 1874, following a second urban holocaust on July 14, 1874, Wight was asked by N.S. Bouton, a Chicago iron manufacturer, to invent a system of fireproofing iron structures because the insurance companies were demanding that Chicago’s building code outlaw iron structural ...
- 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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Oct 2, 2023 · On October 8, 1871, the same night that the Great Fire broke out, a wildfire destroyed the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin. As many as fifteen hundred people died. Even if the figure of three hundred ...
Dec 1, 2020 · 50 Moments That Shaped Chicago 1970–2020 . A lot has happened since Chicago published its first issue 50 years ago this month. Mayors have toppled the status quo, championships have been won and ...
