Great Chicago Fire Research Paper

Flames everywhere, ashes everywhere, it the Great Chicago Fire. Some people believe that a Mrs. O'Leary started the Great Chicago Fire. But what really happened is a man named Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago Fire. He was known as the gambler. He gambled a lot in the O'Leary barn with the O'Leary boy and he was only 18 years old. He was in the O'Leary barn with some of his friend he alway play the illegal dice game with the few boys.

Louis M. Cohn started the Great Chicago fire.He was shooting craps “dice game” which is illegal. That when everything went wrong to Louis and and his other friends playing the dice game.He snuck out of the house/cottage and got along with some friends of his and were playing a illegal dice game and …show more content…
O'Leary could not start the Great Chicago fire.According to many websites and research it seems that Mrs. O'Leary did not start the fire. Looking at this website http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/27/mrs-olearys-cow-didnt-start-any-fires/ it states “Mrs. Catherine O’Leary’s cow often gets blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871. According to legend, the woman was out milking her cow when it accidentally kicked over a lantern and started the inferno that took out the whole city. Indeed her barn was the first building to be consumed by the fire, but there’s no evidence the cow or Mrs. O’Leary was involved in any way.” That shows that she did not start the Great Chicago fire was not by her and plus in so many articles including the one where the information came from it also says that a reporter named Michael Ahern made up the the story of Mrs. O'Leary starting the Great Chicago fire.You might think Mrs. O'Leary's cow story still is true.Well in the the first reason it says that the same person Michael Ahern made the story up for a instreasing story. This all shows how Mrs. O'Leary's story is fake. It all shows how Michael Ahern told the public that the Mrs. O'Leary's cow story is