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1871 the great chicago fire happened on sunday october 8 to tuesday october 10 the whole city of chicago was on fire!, the fire killed 300 people and destroyed 3.3 square miles. it left over 100,000 homeless people without anything no food water or shelter in my opinion the great Chicago fire was a devastating disaster but before that the fire started at 9:00 there was a barn and behind the barn there was shed right next to a building consumed of fire! the fire started to spread throughout the city of chicago, While the fire was burning the city of chicago there were about 185 chicago firemen to stop the fire. the fire was to big to keep it from spreading many people had nowhere to run..

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