Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying several square miles in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the nineteenth century, the rebuilding that began almost immediately spurred Chicago's development into one of the United States's most populous and economically important cities.

External links

• Did a Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? (Discovery Channel)
• The Cause of the Great Chicago Fire
• The Great Chicago Fire