Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... in this interactive timeline and map. 1. Before the fire The Sunday morning sun rises on four city blocks destroyed by a fire that had burned through the ...
Over the span of just a few days in October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire devastated the city, claiming the lives of more than ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or near a barn on what we would now call Chicago's Near West Side. Popular legend that generations of Chicagoans were ...