The Great Chicago Fire
One of the greatest tragedies in U.S. history begins in a barn...
The Great Chicago Fire, which burned almost four square miles of central Chicago, began sometime between October 7th and 8th of 1871. For those accustomed to visualizing more rural measurements, a square mile is 640 acres. So, the fire burned almost 2,500 acres of the city, the size of a very large farm.
It was estimate…
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