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	Great Chicago Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Oct.
		Chicago and the Great Conflagration - Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, 1871, 528 pp.
		The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire (1499 words)

	Chicago Fire (soccer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago Fire is a professional soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois that participates in Major League Soccer.
		The club was founded October 8th, 1997 on the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
		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) (553 words)

	Great Chicago Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Before tracing the progress of the fire further northward must be mentioned the burning of the water works, and the curious or rather incomprehensible manner in which it caught fire almost two hours before the time that the fire first reached the north division across the main branch.
		Before the fire on the south side, these fathers, brothers and sons, were gradually driven across the river, until the rapidity of the progress of the flames convinced them that their own families were in danger.
		The boundaries of the fire in the north division were as follows: With the exception of the few buildings mentioned above, the fire extended over all the north division from the main branch to Division street, and from the north branch to the lake; very nearly 700 acres of territory.
	www.firemaster.freehomepage.com /custom2.html (9404 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.
		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.
		Chicago marked the anniversary of the Great Fire by honoring its contemporary fire heroes.
	www.cnn.com /US/9610/09/chicago.fire (382 words)

	THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE
		The TRIBUNE building, long vaunted as “fire proof”, was turned into a smoking ruin as were the great hotels like the Palmer House, the Tremont and the Sherman.
		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 (1825 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire
		The fire of October 1871 might have been a blessing in disguise for a city that wanted badly to be a player on the international cultural scene.
		Chicago had averaged about two fires a day over the past year and 20 the previous week; the fire department was woefully understaffed.
		Ironically, the O’Leary house was upwind of the fire and survived.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1854.html (1850 words)

	The Chicago Fire
		The wind was blowing a gale from the south and carried the fire through the heart of the city for miles.
		The --- (unreadable) at Chicago was this morning believed to have been extinguished by the heavy rains of last night, but the telegraph wires were then broken, preventing the arrival of direct intelligence.
		It says the fire burnt all night in the northern part of the city, but at noon was under control.
	genealogytrails.com /ill/cook/fire.html (936 words)

	Chicago Fire - 1871
		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 a great light to the southwest of my residence, but no greater than I had frequently seen in that quarter, where vast piles of pine lumber have been stored all the time I have lived in Chicago, some eighteen years.
	www.nationalcenter.org /ChicagoFire.html (4051 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Gapers Block : Airbags : Chicago Burns Again: The Second Great Fire
		If there is one event in Chicago's history that everyone knows, it's the Great Chicago Fire, which began on October 9, 1871, destroying the downtown business district and leaving a third of city's residents homeless.
		The firemen attempted to halt the blaze, but were forced to abandon the fire engine in the street as the fire grew in strength and threatened to overwhelm them.
		After the Great Fire of 1871, the city had established fire limits prohibiting the construction of any wooden building north of 22nd Street or east of Halsted Street in the downtown area.
	www.gapersblock.com /airbags/archives/chicago_burns_again_the_second_great_fire (1213 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire
		Besides the fact that the Great Chicago Fire started around 9 o'clock on Sunday evening, October 8, 1871, somewhere in or very near the O'Leary barn, the exact particulars of its origins are unknown.
		What the fire could not touch was Chicago's most important feature, its location, which made it more accessible than any place on earth to resources and markets throughout the globe at the very time when America was taking over world leadership in industrial enterprise.
		The fire was all too reminiscent of the Paris Commune, which had been put down in late May of 1871 in a bloody battle that ended with Paris set afire by radicals in a last-ditch act of defiance against the Versailles government.
	virtualchicagoland.com /c/details.php?id=367 (3490 words)

	Great Chicago Fire - Uncyclopedia
		Great Chicago Fire that could only play second fiddle in the annals of arson to Nero himself.
		Chicago, that future gleaming broad-shouldered metropolis, was a grand general directing America’s battle against cows and nature.
		It is said that this group of one-testicled Chicago NAMBLA members went on to clone a single-testicle Hitler 18 years later.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire (684 words)

	Chicago Architecture Imagebase: Chicago and the Great Fire of 1871 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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)

	Dissertations, Essays on The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
		The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was one of the largest disasters in American history.
		Before the fire there was a large drought causing everything to be dry and flammable, then a fire broke out in the O’Leary’s barn and spread throughout the city.
		As a result of the fire, Chicago was rebuilt and is once again a great city.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/The_Great_Chicago_Fire_of_1871-90845.html (147 words)

	Fire of 1871
		Aided by an outpouring of charity from around the world, Chicagoans brought about a remarkable reconstruction; the city expanded as it rebuilt, and most visible signs of the destruction were erased within a year.
		Traditionally understood as the turning point of Chicago's early history, the Great Fire cemented the reputation of the rising metropolis as a place of opportunity, renewal, and future promise.
		Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1740.html (189 words)

	Aurora Regional Fire Museum - Unsolved History: the Great Chicago Fire
		In the June of 2004, The Aurora Regional Fire Museum was again asked to assist in the filming of a television documentary about the Chicago Fire.
		David Lewis, Curator for the Aurora Regional Fire Museum and Matt Lee, a firefighting historian from Plymouth, MI were asked to be "on set" to ensure the show's recreations were as accurate as possible.
		A disastrous combination of mechanical problems and human error, delayed the fire apparatus from arriving on the scene for nearly an hour, and by then it was too late.
	www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org /new/midway_premiere.htm (469 words)

	The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory. CD-ROM review for the Journal for MultiMedia History
		Students could be sent to different documents on the immediate aftermath of the fire, for example, and read one self-congratulatory account of the effective work of the special committee that in effect "ran" Chicago in the days after the fire.
		One puzzler is the lack of a link to the next great event in Chicago's history, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, itself the subject of a spectacular exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society in 1993-94 (the 100th anniversary of the gigantic exhibition).
		The essays in the "Great Chicago Fire" section mention that Chicago's central location, together with the fact that the fire did not burn the rail infrastructure or the industries in the western part of the young city, meant that Chicago's rebuilding could begin immediately.
	www.albany.edu /jmmh/vol1no1/ChiFireR.html (911 words)

	Jim Murphy
		In October 1871, as Chicago was engulfed in flames, 100,000 people became homeless and a flourishing city built of wood was transformed into a smoldering wasteland.
		The Great Fire tells the riveting story of one of the greatest disasters in American history by weaving together the personal accounts of survivors -- from courageous 12-year-old Clare Innis to reporter Joseph Chamberlin -- with contemporary newspaper accounts and extensively researched Chicago history.
		Maps illustrate the fire's progress, while historic photos, engravings and newspaper clippings bring the Chicago of 1871 to life.
	www.jimmurphybooks.com /greatfire.htm (253 words)

	Miller / The Great Chicago Fire
		Miller argues that the mythologizing of emblematic events is a phenomenon first seen on a large scale after the Chicago fire.
		Amid myriad eyewitness and photographic accounts of the fire, a consideration of what had actually happened was quickly subordinated to a developing narrative that attempted to resolve the city's conflicted identity into a unity.
		Within a generation of the fire, Chicago became home to a radical new architecture, a daring new realistic fiction, literary journalism, and the new scientific study of society.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f00/millerr.html (203 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)

	Fire Prevention History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The history of National Fire Prevention Week has it roots in the Great Chicago Fire, which occurred on October 8, 1871.
		The city of Chicago quickly rebuilt, however, and within a couple of years residents began celebrating their successful restoration to memorialize the anniversary of the fire with festivities.
		NFPA continues today to make National Fire Prevention Week a priority and counts on the participation and efforts of tens of thousands of fire and safety professionals, emergency volunteers, and other individuals working to reduce the risk of fire and the toll it takes on our society.
	firesafety.buffnet.net /history.htm (315 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		The success of the fire department was predicated on their ability to spot a fire quickly and control it before it spread.
		Within an hour, a block of poor shanties was destroyed and the fire, carried by the wind, began to move north and east, toward downtown.
		Chunks of flaming debris were spewed across the Chicago River and by midnight, the South Side was in flames.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_fire.html (860 words)

	Chicago Fire - about - history
		On the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 1997, an announcement was made.
		Fire native Frank Klopas, a former Chicago Sting player, also signed with the Fire.
		Chicago also targeted its Spanish population with the signing of Jorge Campos, Diego Gutierrez and Chris Armas.
	chicago.fire.mlsnet.com /MLS/chf/load.jsp?section=about&content=history (419 words)

	Great Chicago Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He claimed that the night of the fire, he had gone to visit the O’Learys, and upon leaving walked across the street, passing his house, and ending up on the porch of a neighbor’s home.
		Historians believe a valid explanation of the night of the Great Fire is that Daniel Sullivan left the O’Leary home and went into the barn to sit in the warm night air or enjoy the sounds from a nearby party.
		The fire quickly grew out of his control and he had to abandon trying to extinguish it.
	www.burlingame.org /Great_Chicago_Fire.htm (674 words)

	Gapers Block : Airbags : Ashland Avenue, the Great Fire and the Ruins of Chicago
		The Great Chicago Fire began between 9 and 10 o'clock on the night of October 8, 1871 in the now-infamous barn behind the home of Mr.
		the fire had already destroyed the downtown area and had jumped north across the main branch of the river, and it was abundantly clear that it wouldn't stop until nothing was left to burn.
		Yes, the rubble left by the fire was swept into the lake, and while it didn't alter the city's sea level, it did alter the shape of the city's lakefront.
	www.gapersblock.com /airbags/archives/ashland_avenue_the_great_fire_and_the_ruins_of_chicago (1150 words)

	Chicago Fire - about - logo
		As a result, the name Chicago Fire was chosen by a group of people, which included Investor-operator Philip Anschutz, President Bob Sanderman and General Manager Peter Wilt.
		The Chicago Fire was selected over other team name contenders such as the Blues, Rhythm and Wind because of the passion the name evokes.
		Because the Great Chicago Fire has such history, we wanted to use something with history, hence the 'C' in the middle of a Fireman type badge.
	chicago.fire.mlsnet.com /MLS/chf/load.jsp?section=about&content=logo (318 words)

	Education World ® - Lesson Planning: Great Chicago Fire Web Site Rich in Language Arts
		That description of the Great Chicago Fire of October 8 through 10, 1871, is drawn from a fascinating, far-reaching commemorative Web site, The Great Chicago Fire and The Web of Memory, from the Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University.
		The site is divided into two major sections: The Great Chicago Fire, which covers the history of the city at the time of the fire and immediately following, and The Web of Memory, which shows how the fire has been recalled by eyewitnesses, journalists, artists, photographers, and many others.
		It had been a very dry summer, and the fire, which was driven by a strong wind from the southwest, aimed straight for the center of Chicago.
	www.educationworld.com /a_lesson/lesson080.shtml (844 words)

	Aurora Regional Fire Museum - Unsolved History: the Great Chicago Fire
		In the summer of 2003, David Lewis, Curator for the Aurora Regional Fire Museum was invited to participate as one of the guest historians on Unsolved History a weekly series on the Discovery Channel.
		In the months following the Great Chicago Fire, the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners held an inquiry to determine, among other things, the cause of the fire.
		Using the original transcripts of the 1871 inquiry, Chicago real estate records, and other primary-source materials Richard Bales, casts new light on the origin of the fire, and offers compelling evidence that exonerates Mrs O'Leary and her cow.
	www.auroraregionalfiremuseum.org /history/chicagofire/index.html (511 words)

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