Thursday, Oct. 8 marks the 155th anniversary of the start of the Great Chicago Fire. The disaster claimed thousands of ...
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed 17,500 buildings, but the legend blaming Catherine O’Leary’s cow lasted for more ...
The Great Chicago Fire, a princess from Mars and Laverne & Shirley joined the army ...
Chicago is a tinderbox. In three months, only an inch of rain has fallen. For days a strong, hot wind has blown in from the southwest.
Equally famous is the story of who started the Great Chicago Fire: Mrs. O’Leary—and her cow, of course. On October 9, 1871, as the Great Chicago Fire was still burning, the Chicago Evening Journal ...