1. Rebuilding the Second City
... to know the conditions of Chicago that made it so easily fire prone. The summer of 1871 had been remarkably dry that year and most of the cities 60,000 stables, barns, houses, stores, and other warehouses were made out of wood.2 This made the great city of Chicago susceptible to tremendous damage from a fire. As author Robert Cromie states in his book The ... ; next to it stood lumberyards, coal dumps, and mills.23 Historians can agree that the fire did start in the O'Leary home on October 8th 1871, but the stories as to how it started vary.24 As the story goes Mrs. O'Leary went out into ...
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