Photo taken from South Water Street. The west entrance to the courthouse shows it in ruins from the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. A drawing shows a family seeking refuge from the fire on a rooftop ...

Francis Davis Millet sketch from the Chicago Tribune ... The first star represents the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Points in this star stand for material ideas in which the city was known for ...

A movie poster for the film In Old Chicago. Photograph: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox At the beginning of In Old Chicago, Darryl F. Zanuck’s 1938 disaster epic about the Great Chicago Fire ...

Illustration of the legend of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow kicking over a lamp to start the Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago, Illinois. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ... Plus, because wood was cheap and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marks 150 years since the Great Chicago Fire. The Chicago History Museum ... More importantly, O'Leary was easy to blame because of who she was and what she represented.

Berg shows in his illuminating new book, “The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a ... This was no easy task in the jumble of a vast nineteenth-century conurbation.

Not surprisingly, the conclusion was yes. 3 The fire led to Chicago mayors having more power. Before 1871, the job was “a ceremonial figurehead.” Elected a month after the fire, Chicago ...