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	Great Chicago Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying several square miles in Chicago, Illinois.
		Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the nineteenth century, the rebuilding that began almost immediately spurred Chicago's development into one of the United States's most populous and economically important cities.
		Though the Peshtigo Fire remains the deadliest in American history, the remoteness of the region meant it was little noticed at the time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire (1297 words)

	Chicago Fire (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Fire is a soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois that participates in Major League Soccer.
		The Fire won the MLS Cup in 1998, their first season in the league.
		The "Ring of Fire" was established in 2003 by the Chicago Fire and the Chicago Fire Alumni Association as permanent tribute to honor those who have made the Chicago Fire a proud and successful club over the course of its history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago_Fire_(soccer) (488 words)

	Fire destroys landmark church
		Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said there was work being done on the roof just prior to the fire.
		The church, designated a Chicago landmark in 1981, was originally a synagogue after it was built between 1890 and 1891 but has housed the church since 1922.
		The fire forced students from the nearby Illinois College of Optometry to be evacuated.
	www.suntimes.com /output/news/06fire.html (495 words)

	Unofficial Chicago Fire Dept. Page
		The Chicago Fire Department is the largest fire department in the Midwest region of the United States.
		Chicago is the home of the "World's Busiest Airport." O'Hare is located in the far Northwest portion of the city.
		Chicago's O'Hare International Airport serves 66 million passengers every year and has a total of six runways that sit on 7,800 acres -- the acreage is less than half the size of Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport at 17,520 acres and only one quarter the size of Denver International Airport at 34,000 acres.
	www.emergency.com /cfdpage.htm (1289 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Soccer / Revolution play with fire in Chicago
		CHICAGO -- For Andy Herron, it was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
		The Chicago Fire forward, making his first MLS start, found an opening in the New England defense two times and capitalized, lifting the Fire past the Revolution, 2-0, at Soldier Field last night.
		In the seventh minute, Fire midfielder Nate Jacqua started a scoring sequence from along the right sideline, sending a crisp pass to the center of the field where Armas outraced Rusty Pierce to the ball.
	www.boston.com /sports/soccer/articles/2004/09/26/revolution_play_with_fire_in_chicago (416 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chicago averaged about two fires a day the previous year, including twenty in the preceding week.
		The fire, driven by a strong wind out of the southwest, headed straight for the center of the city.
		Chicago quickly rebuilt and by 1875 little evidence of the disaster remained.
	www.mce.k12tn.net /disasters/great_chicago.htm (217 words)

	Chicago Fire - 1871 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Chicago fire raged for two days and nights, covering over 2,100 acres, causing 200 deaths, destroying 17,450 buildings and leaving 70,000 homeless (out of a population of 324,000).
		The history of the great fire in Chicago, which rises to the dignity of a national event, cannot be written until each witness, who makes any record whatever, shall have told what he saw.
		There was still a mass of fire to the southwest, in the direction whence it originally came, but as the engines were all down there, and the buildings small and low, I felt sure that the firemen would manage it.
	www.nationalcenter.org /ChicagoFire.html (4051 words)

	CNN - Chicago's 'Great Fire' spurred innovations - Oct. 9, 1996
		CHICAGO (CNN) -- "Never again!" was the rallying cry 125 years ago after the "Chicago Fire" destroyed a swath of downtown nearly one mile wide and five miles long.
		The story of the fire is featured in a colorful new Internet exhibit: "The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory" chronicles the devastation and the inventions it wrought.
		Some of the other firefighting equipment founded in Chicago is less high-tech: the snorkel truck, the fire plug or hydrant, the collapsible fire escape and the fire pole, which was invented by a Chicago fire captain in 1874 so firefighters could slide quickly to the ground floor.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/09/chicago.fire (382 words)

	Chicago Fire 1871
		Fires were a regular occurrence in those days because they didn’t have fire codes or good fire prevention.
		The Chicago Fire Department was extremely overworked by the time Sunday night came around because the week prior had many devastating fires.
		The people of Chicago took advantage of the clean slate they were given to build on and learned from their previous mistakes.
	www.msu.edu /user/yackishj/atl150.htm (1549 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Chicago fire chief steps down
		CHICAGO -- The city's fire commissioner unexpectedly announced his retirement yesterday amid twin controversies about the department's handling of a deadly downtown high-rise fire and disclosures that firefighters had made racial slurs over department radios.
		Daley also spoke of the slurs, which have added to years of charges that racism is pervasive in a department that remains 70 percent white, though the city is 60 percent fl and Hispanic.
		Joyce was not at the scene of the fatal fire but was in contact with officials and had been told that people were trapped in the stairwells.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/04/02/chicago_fire_chief_steps_down (483 words)

	Professional Football Researchers Association- Pro Football History
		The Fire persuaded veteran quarterback Virgil Carter to jump to the Wiffle, but Carter had missed the '73 season with a broken collarbone and there were questions about his health.
		The Chicago roster was a patchwork of unknowns, old-timers and youngsters.
		Chicago hurriedly signed Leroy Kelly, cut by the Oakland Raiders, who rushed just once for three yards as the Fire was buried by Memphis, 25-7.
	www.footballresearch.com /articles/frpage.cfm?topic=chifire (2129 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire and Memory, an excerpt from Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief by Carl Smith
		The fire had thus bestowed on the city a portentous moment of origin that involved the obliteration of its actual past and the directing of all energy and attention toward Chicago's prospects in a modern social and economic order.
		The overall effect of the burning of Chicago on business, the article continued, "is perhaps as striking a proof as we have ever had of the closeness of the relations which have been established between the uttermost ends of the earth.
		As powerful and even as justified as was the booster dream, it could not dispel this fear, which the fire literature imagined as the fair city in distress at the hands of incendiaries and demons who would defame, defile, and destroy her unless good citizens were vigilant and forceful.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/764176.html (2141 words)

	THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE
		Legend has it that this structure is haunted today by the ghost of a man who stayed on the job during the fire, continuing to pump the water as the fire got closer.
		The fire had cut a swath through the city that was four miles long and about two-thirds of a mile wide.
		The Great Chicago Fire was the beginning of a new metropolis, much greater than it could have ever become if the horrific fire had never happened at all.
	www.prairieghosts.com /great_fire.html (1821 words)

	Firehouse.Com In the Line of Duty - 12/23/00 - Chicago Firefighter Struck, Killed by Car at Accident Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"The fire department is in the midst of preparing a funeral to honor the firefighter and at this time wishes that the law enforcement authorities perform their job and charge the driver with whatever is appropriate," the spokesman said.
		Gillen was a 14-year veteran of the fire department and is part of a firefighting family.
		Chicago Fire Lieutenant L. Merrell was killed and a second firefighter seriously injured when a ladder truck responding to a false alarm on Saturday, Apr. 29 was broadsided by a truck that failed to yield the right-of-way at a four-way stop intersection.
	www.firehouse.com /lodd/2000/il_nov23.html (462 words)

	Chicago Fire!
		The Chicago Fire scored a dramatic 4-3 win over the Colorado Rapids tonight at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to earn six points and first place in the MLS Spring Training Tournament.
		CHICAGO (AP) — As Chicago Fire players consoled each other after their disappointing loss in the MLS Cup last fall, Hristo Stoitchkov slipped away from his teammates and headed for the fan section.
		CHICAGO (Wednesday, February 7, 2001) -- Chicago Fire and Major League Soccer officials today announced that Bulgarian international Hristo Stoitchkov has signed a multiyear contract with the league and club.
	www.angelfire.com /tx3/Stoichkov/ChicagoFire.html (1856 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Chicago' catching fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chicago may or may not be your kind of town, but it is proving to be the movie musical for grown-ups.
		Melissa Caraminas, 25, of Chicago, says she was drawn by the TV commercials and the cast.
		Chicago's appeal among older moviegoers is a point in its favor come Oscar time; academy members tend to be middle-aged and older.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-01-08-chicago_x.htm (1488 words)

	Chicago Architecture Imagebase: Chicago and the Great Fire of 1871 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Chicago fire of 1871 was a watershed event in the history of cities.
		But the Chicago fire's popularity and importance was the result less of its sobering messages to city planners and entrepreneurs.
		To look at these documents, with their iconography of grief, death, forced humility and resolution, is to see the ways that this event served to bring to the surface deeper confl icts concerning the modern urban-industrial world, the nature of human life within its cities, and the possibility of community within them.
	tigger.uic.edu /~pbhales/chifire.html (437 words)

	Chicago: Police, Fire, Municipal Reverse Discrimination
		CHICAGO [AP]-- "Nine white firefighters won more than $2.3 million in back pay and damages because their scores on a lieutenant's test were lowered 16 years ago because the city wanted to promote minorities.
		The Chicago Sun-Times reports: "Seven white supervisors in a South Side police district are accusing their fl commander of a pattern of reverse discrimination in complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
		The Chicago Sun-Times identified three of the complaining white officers as Lt. Diane O'Sullivan, Sgt. Jan Roche and Sgt. Al Cain.
	www.adversity.net /policefire_2_chicago.htm (1919 words)

	nbc4i.com - Crew - Chicago Fire Team Report - April 7
		In addition, Fire fans the world over can listen to both the Spanish and Polish audio feeds as well as an English language call of the match by directing their web browsers to the club's official website, www.Chicago-Fire.com.
		The Fire took the upper hand in the series with United last year thanks to a 3-1-0 mark in the 2004 regular season series, which gave Chicago a 9-8-3 advantage in regular season meetings.
		The Fire made its debut on Comcast SportsNet last Saturday against at FC Dallas, marking the first match in a broadcast schedule that features all road contests for the 2005 season.
	www.nbc4i.com /crew/4355439/detail.html (487 words)

	USATODAY.com - Racial problems plague Chicago Fire Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		CHICAGO (AP) — After 25 years as a firefighter, Curtis Humphries knows his job on certain calls is mostly limited to helping paramedics.
		The simmering dates at least to 1965 when a fire truck operated by an all-white crew in a predominantly fl neighborhood struck a stop sign that hit and killed a fl woman, triggering a riot.
		Then, in an effort to ease tensions, the department's handful of fl firefighters, who had been segregated from their white counterparts, were assigned to every station in fl neighborhoods.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-04-06-chicago-firefighters_x.htm (883 words)

	Chicago Fire News
		Chicago Fire news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Chicago, IL - The Chicago Fire traded the rights to veteran midfielder Jesse Marsch to Chivas USA in return for a first round pick in the 2007 MLS Supplemental Draft on Tuesday.
		CHICAGO After a scoreless first half, Eric Vasquez and Simon Elliott scored as the Columbus Crew beat the Chicago Fire 2-1 Saturday.
	www.topix.net /us-soccer/chicago-fire (500 words)

	Chicago Fire
		In his four years with the Fire, Nowak has compiled a team-high 44 assists with 12 being game winners along with 23 goals for 90 points.
		Earned MVP honors at MLS Cup '98, as Chicago captured its first championship and was Instrumental in helping Chicago capture two Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup titles in 1998 and 2000.
		He renewed his contract with MLS and the Fire on 2-8-02 2001: Nowak continued his great play as he became Chicago's 2001 Fire/Honda MVP finishing the season as the team's third-leading scorer, recording six goals and team-high 10 assists for 22 points in only 18 games played (all starts).
	www.artkasia.com /fire/inner_2.html (783 words)

	CNN.com - Chicago high-rise fire injures 37 - Dec 7, 2004
		Fire burns Monday on the 29th floor of a Chicago building.
		Jim Rubens, who was working on the 36th floor, said fire crews reached his group and told them to exit down a stairwell in the smoke-filled building.
		The fire comes a little more than a year after a blaze on the 12th floor of the Cook County administration building, which killed six people who had been trapped in a stairwell.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/12/06/chicago.fire (576 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century
		The fire, fanned by the strong southwest wind, is on the move -- and terrified Chicagoans start to flee.
		The fire leaps the main branch of the Chicago River and burns fiercely in the North Division.
		Although she was in bed the night of the fire, not in the barn with her cow, she will spend the rest of her life -- 24 years -- a virtual recluse.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/maps/chicago_fire_text.html (2789 words)

	Chicago: 1871 The Great Fire
		For more detailed online information, the The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University is a wonderful resource.
		By midnight the fire had jumped the river's south branch and by 1:30 a.m., the business district was in flames.
		The 100th anniversary of the fire was commemorated during the period October 3-10, 1971, with a series of events including a fire centennial dinner during which the Mayor expressed thanks to cities and countries that sent money after the fire.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/timeline/greatfire.html (253 words)

	The Cause of the Great Chicago Fire
		Before the fire died out in the early morning of Tuesday, October 10, it had cut a swath through Chicago approximately three and one-third square miles in size.
		Despite all this, the board members failed to ascertain the fire's cause, stating merely in their report that "whether it originated from a spark blown from a chimney on that windy night, or was set on fire by human agency, we are unable to determine."
		An analysis of the original transcripts of this inquiry, 1871 Chicago real estate records, and other period source materials provide powerful evidence that the latter may be the case.
	www.thechicagofire.com (381 words)

	CBC News: Chicago skyscraper fire injures 34
		CHICAGO - At least 34 people were injured, 13 of them seriously, when a blaze broke out in the upper floors of a historic skyscraper in downtown Chicago Monday evening.
		The fire began at about 6:30 p.m., when between 400 and 500 workers were still in their offices.
		The Chicago Fire Department sent 300 firefighters and more than one-third of its fire equipment to battle the blaze.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/12/07/chicago-fire041207.html (235 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century
		The city of wooden buildings and woodpaved streets is ripe for the fire that will destroy three-quarters of the city.
		Chicago is about to suffer one of the world's worst urban disasters.
		Track the path of the fire and read accounts of the people who lived through it, in this interactive timeline and map.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/maps (107 words)

	No. 1266: Chicago Fire
		Chicago had become an overcrowded, wood-built, bone-dry city with a poor fire department.
		The fire destroyed over three square miles of city, killed 250 people, and left 100,000 homeless.
		But Chicago really burned because all the factors favored a fire -- and no one was paying proper attention.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1266.htm (539 words)

	SI.com - Soccer - MLS - Chicago Fire
		This year marks the sixth time in six seasons that Chicago has qualified for the MLS postseason, while United is making its first trip to the playoffs since 1999.
		Chicago will be looking for revenge against D.C. after losing the 2003 season series 1-2-1.
		United would hand the Fire its only home loss of the season by a 2-1 score at Cardinal Stadium in Naperville on July 12, but Chicago got revenge and its first win against D.C. on Aug. 16 at Cardinal with a dominating 3-1 result.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/mls/teams/fire (467 words)

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