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The most famous fire struck Chicago, and claimed about 300 lives while destroying over three square miles of the city, including more than 17,000 buildings. For many years, the cause of the fire was attributed to a cow housed in a barn on 137 DeKoven Street.
4 dni temu · A significant historical year for this entry is 1837. Location. 41° 53.481′ N, 87° 37.77′ W. Marker is in Chicago, Illinois, in Cook County. It is in River North. Marker is on North Dearborn Street south of West Grand Avenue. The marker faces west on the southern edge of the building, near Corey's NYC Bagel Deli.
6 dni temu · The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed approximately 17,500 buildings, and the Great Boston Fire the following year destroyed 776 buildings, including most of the financial district,...
2 dni temu · One-third of Chicago lay in ashes in the wake of the Great Fire of 1871, but it was rebuilt in record speed during the onset of an economic depression.
3 dni temu · Serious fires were frequent, but no one could have anticipated the events of the evening of October 8, 1871. Months without rain had parched the city, and a major fire the previous night had exhausted firefighters and damaged equipment.
4 dni temu · The reconstruction of the city after the Great Fire of 1871 initiated a pattern of building innovation that expanded in the late 1880s with a wave of new office structures that were dubbed skyscrapers, a term reputedly coined in Chicago but which New York also claims. The steel frames of skyscrapers removed height limitations previously imposed ...
5 dni temu · After the Chicago fire in 1871, by a tremendous engineering feat, the river was dredged and its current was actually reversed. It connects by canal to the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River, allowing for water commerce from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
