This story is based on a podcast produced by Newsweek and Our American Stories. Click here to listen. Most Americans know the story of the Great Chicago Fire. Few know the story of the city's ...

For about 30 years after the fire, Chicago was the American city. Where the story of the Great Fire, as popularly told, has lost its way at times has been in the assigning of blame and credit ...

The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special brings to life this ... Grain, lumber, cattle and hogs were these natural resources of the American West, are brought into the city, transformed ...

A reporter made the whole story up.” Walavich noted that when people think about the Great Chicago Fire, they sometimes focus on the material damage. “You sometimes forget about the people ...

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was ... Maybe there’s a story that’s been handed down through the generations of your family about the fire. Or, maybe an object in your possession shows the ...

The Great Chicago Fire was one of the major news stories of the 19th century ... In November 1871 the famous American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted offered his perspective in an ...

The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous inferno in American history. But it wasn’t even the worst fire that night. This is the story of America’s most fiery night, and the crackpot theory ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Wednesday is the 143rd anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire ... However, the cause of the fire is not officially known. The story that a cow started the fire by kicking over ...

and breadth of human experience that shaped this great American city, this season of CHICAGO STORIES features Angels Too Soon: The School Fire of ’58, The Race to Reverse the River, Pullman and ...

Along with the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 stands as one of America’s foundational urban legends, a story of ... have cycled through American affairs for ...

The Palisades Fire in California has burned nearly 16,000 acres, or 25 square miles. In comparison, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 spanned just 2,124 acres, or 3.3 square miles. Ongoing California ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Scott Berg is the author of a new book on the great Chicago fire and how a series of unfortunate mishaps and ...