Account of the Chicago Fire of 1871 (542 words, 2 pages)
The summer of 1871 had been an unusually dry one in Chicago. BetweenJuly and October, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-sevenfires in the first week of October, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze brokeout in a planning mill on the West Side and destroyed almost ...
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