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20 paź 2021 · The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 killed 300 people, destroyed about 3.3 square miles (9 km2), and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.
30 maj 2014 · This resulted in the decline of the half-timbered houses common in the Tudor era, and allowed for the emergence of stone Georgian architecture. 1. Great Chicago Fire, 1871
8 paź 2021 · The fire “wiped the slate clean” of traditional ornamented architecture, thereby, without any standing examples of the past, Chicago’s architects were freed to invent a modern architecture. Nothing could be further from the truth.
8 paź 2021 · 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.
24 sty 2018 · These five spots are little-known remnants of the Great Chicago Fire—places where you can still see the trauma underneath the cover of a brand new city. Char Marks, St. James Cathedral
6 gru 2021 · Rare photographs show the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire that caused destruction over one of the biggest American cities.
21 paź 2015 · Kirkland's history, published in 1892, gathers some remarkable before-and-after photos of the fire's devastation, from the South Loop up to the Near North Side.
