Description *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fires by witnesses and survivors *Includes bibliographies for further reading It had taken about 40 years for Chicago to grow from a small settlement of about 300 people into a thriving metropolis with a population of 300,000, but in just two days in 1871, much of that progress was burned to the ground.
In arguably the most famous Fire in American history, a blaze in the southwestern section of Chi.
Description *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fires by witnesses and survivors *Includes bibliographies for further reading It had taken about 40 years for Chicago to grow from a small settlement of about 300 people into a thriving metropolis with a population of 300,000, but in just two days in 1871, much of that progress was burned to the ground
