... to the fire engines, and often closed off roads turning them into dead ends. Contributing to the issue, property owners felt no need to maintain such streets, believing that were was no point in maintaining streets that did not go anywhere. If just the mere structure and zoning of Chicago ... combustible materials such as firewood, hay, grain, coal, oil, and lumber, the contents of the buildings fueled the fire.7 With all of the wood building and combustible materials that were produced in Chicago during this time, Chicago was known as the lumber capital of the world.8 In the year 1870 ...

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