Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... in this interactive timeline and map. 1. Before the fire The Sunday morning sun rises on four city blocks destroyed by a fire that had burned through the ...
The Great Chicago Fire broke out on Oct. 8, 1871 on the city’s West Side ... roughly 2,560 acres. According to maps provided by the Chicago Architecture Center, the path of devastation was ...
CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or near a barn on what we would now call Chicago's Near West Side. Popular legend that generations of Chicagoans were ...