As Birrieria Zaragoza assessed its next step, Chicago’s restaurant community is rallying including a weekend fundraiser at Big Star ...

A new report published by Alcoy Today, titled“How Fire Insurance Coverage for Housing Has Responded to Major Historical Events ,” provides a timely and data-informed look at how catastrophic fires - ...

The Associated Press, just 25 years old in 1871, sent dispatches first from its office in the Chicago Tribune building before staff fled to a Western Union office, where they filed before fleeing ...

When the monumental fire of October 1871 struck Chicago, the city, which had been a tiny frontier outpost only four decades earlier, was home to about 330,000 people.

There is a reason for this. In October, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire, as it became known, killed hundreds and consumed more than seventeen thousand buildings, many of them wooden.

Limitations Experienced by Both Fire Departments The Great Chicago Fire broke out on Oct. 8, 1871 on the city’s West Side.

The difference between the two was the Chicago fire killed 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres.

Old St. Patrick’s Church is one of a handful of buildings said to have survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 3. The Wingert House – 1854 ...

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 ...

Corpus Christi’s first firefighting operation began as a volunteer service. On Aug. 1, 1871, William Roger’s new home at the corner of Chaparral and Coopers Alley caught on fire. People awoke ...