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The Chicago Fire of 1871
Title: The Chicago Fire of 1871
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 571 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Chicago Fire of 1871
THE CHICAGO FIRE of 1871
The summer of 1871 had been an unusually dry one in Chicago. Between July and
October, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-seven fires in the first week of
October, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze broke out in a planning mill on the West
Side and destroyed almost every building in a four block area before it was brought under
control Sunday morning. They lost a hose and other …showed first 75 words of 571 total…
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went home. Finally around 11P.M. the wind died down and showers began falling. The
fire was over, even though many piles of wood remained smoldering.
90,000 people were left homeless and 300 people died. 2124 acres were destroyed
in the raging inferno, a total of 0,000,000 in property loss. After a huge fire like this
you would expect for it to take a long time to rebuild, but with in a month, 4,000 new
buildings were put up.
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