“The first star represents Fort Dearborn, the second star represents the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the third star represents the 1893 World’s Fair and the fourth star represents the 1933 ...
a novelty prompted by the family’s loss of their previous home to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. After multiple residents and much deterioration, the home was meticulously restored in the ...
Randolph St., an eight-story, Italianate-style building that was among the first to rise from the ashes of the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, is nearly vacant, deteriorating and stuck in redevelopment ...
A DNA test kit revealed to a Chicago woman that she ... several versions of the legend of the Great Fire, but the most common one is that on October 8, 1871, Catherine O’Leary went into a ...
The Water Tower was built in the late 1860s. It was one of the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. It was designed by Architect William W. Boyington. Chicago is home to the ...
Chicago, Illinois? Surely, Chicago, ILLINOISE! Still, better to be safe than sorry on the fire front. In 1871, most of the city ... last living Chicago blues great. Before the Sixties blues ...
Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation (May 2023). Follow him @joshuamzeitz. At his second ...
It grew to 109,000 residents in 1860. Despite the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, it boomed to 503,000 residents in 1880 and doubled to more than 1 million by 1890. It was just 56 years after the city was ...