... 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 Great Chicago Fire; The buildings were like an enormous artificial forest, drying out in a sun-heated oven. Not only were most of the ... regulations put into place from the first great fire banning any building to be made from wood, only the temporarily built wood buildings were the ones that burned.52 Finally, Mark Twain wrote in his memoir Life on the Mississippi ...

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