The view looking north shows the Pumping Station after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The station’s walls survived the fire, but the roof did not. The Oct. 11 edition of the Chicago Tribune ...

Or so goes the legend of the Great Chicago Fire, popularized in a version of the song, “A Hot Time in the Old Town.” The City Council officially exonerated Mrs. O’Leary and her cow in 1997 ...

Loesch - a bookkeeper for Western Union at the time of the Great Fire and later a prominent Chicago attorney – and republished in Chicago History Magazine for the centennial of the fire in 1971 ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Rebuilding the Marine Building, located on the northeast corner of Lake and LaSalle Streets, after its destruction during the GReat Chicago Fire of 1871.

A devastating fire broke out in a barn on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois on this day in history on Oct. 8, 1871. Known as The Great Chicago Fire, the blaze burned through the heart of the ...

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. It may sound strange to call something so deadly "great," but it suits Chicago's self-image as a place where things are bigger ...

Berg shows in his illuminating new book, “The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul” (Pantheon). The Chicago fire turns out to be a rich case study not ...

The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that decimated the Windy City more than 150 years ago. According to Los ...