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The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2 ) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [ 3 ]
February 12 – Barton Hotel fire in Chicago, Illinois, killed 29. February 16 – Elderly home for Catholic church fire in Yokohama, Japan, killed 100. April 28 – Green Mill Hotel fire in Chicago, Illinois, killed 12. May 11 – Cinema fire in Wielopole Skrzyńskie, Poland, killed 58 and injured 20. [55]
A four-story Major Block 1 building, designed by T. V. Widskier, sat on this location until the Great Chicago Fire. After the fire, this was replaced with the Major Block 2, which eventually became known as the Roanoke Building. Major Block 2 stood from 1872 to 1912 as a seven-story building on spread foundations. It was designed by Dixon ...
144 years ago, the Great Fire of Chicago took over the city, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
1871: October 8 – 10, the Great Chicago Fire. [6] [11] 1872 Montgomery Ward in business. Establishment of the first Black fire company in the city. The original library, inside the old water tower on the site that is now the Rookery Building. This former water tower was the site of the original public library, exterior view
The rabbi's son started peddling the brooms he made at home out of a horse and cart he drove through the teeming busy streets of 1890s Chicago. By the 1920s, William owned a broom factory in ...
The Sherman House (sometimes called, Hotel Sherman) was a hotel in Chicago, Illinois that operated from 1837 until 1973, with four iterations standing at the same site at the northwest corner of Randolph Street and Clark Street. Long one of the city's major hotels, the hotel's fortunes declined in the 1950s amid changes to its surrounding area ...
Built from 1871 to 1888, the buildings are an unusually intact block of what was once a much larger commercial district on the Near North Side. The four stores include a two-story frame storefront building, one of only six remaining from the post-Chicago Fire period in the city, and three three- or three-and-a-half-story store and flat ...