Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, a calamity that burned through the city October 8-10, 1871, killing 300 people and leaving more than 100,000 residents homeless. As raindrops finally doused the flames and city leaders assessed the damage, the shock of tragedy was replaced by the resolve to rebuild. The Chicago Tribune echoed the sentiment of most when it proclaimed in its first post-fire issue: "CHICAGO SHALL RISE AGAIN."
Chicago historian and author David Clark discusses the causes of the fire and how Chicago re-invented itself in the aftermath. From 1872 through the Plan of Chicago in 1909, discover how the city rebuilt, only to do it all again in the early 20th Century.
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