O ver the span of just a few days in October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire devastated the city, claiming the lives of more than 300 people and leaving over 100,000 residents homeless.The fire ...

Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... interested to pick up large cinders about our house... We learned of the great fire that had occurred the night before... It was a wonder that these huge ...

A DNA test kit revealed to a Chicago woman that she ... several versions of the legend of the Great Fire, but the most common one is that on October 8, 1871, Catherine O’Leary went into a ...

While the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 reduced much of the city to ashes, it ushered in a massive rebuilding effort. Some of ...

But judging by anomalies in parish records and by comparisons with similar fires, such as the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871, historian Rebecca Rideal believes the actual number to more likely be ...

Chicago startup staple Grubhub moved into ... The tech incubator is not named for the Great Fire of 1871, but rather what came next with engineers, architects and inventors banding together ...