Between 1905 and 1909, three large fires swept the town and the last one burned down a lot of its central business district. After the tragedy, the city leaders pushed for a water system and fire department, and by 1910 the city got what they wanted. By 1914 the city had 2,500 residents and a cotton gin, three lumber yards, many…
Studs Terkel’s piece Division Street is about two different stories, one from a Native American who moved to Chicago and one from a women that was born in Chicago then moved away and then moved back. Chicago helped shape this piece of art because the two stories that the two people were telling connected back to Chicago. For example Benny Bearskin had talked about how after him and his family moved to the West Side of Chicago all their windows were smashed. He mentioned that after he called the Chicago Police and told them that he was Native American how a man from Chicago Commission on Human Relations came out and the Chicago Defender ran a cartoon. Another example from the passage is when Jessie Winford mentions the Hull House.…
Zishen Chen Fys 073 description &bibliography Title: Ogden’s railroad brings the city Description: The first decade of the development of Chicago is closely linked to William Butler Ogden who built and owned the city. The railroad designed, raised and built by Ogden gave power to him by delivering people, more labor force, and necessary raw materials such as grain, live stocks so that industries like hotels and meat factories managed to develop under the control of the railroad tycoon.…
How Port Chicago Changed the World By: Abigail Port Chicago Information Port Chicago is a Navy Port in California where ammunition was loaded and shipped primarily by African Americans out to the soldiers fighting in World War II (Sheinkin). Untrained African American soldiers had to load the ammunition while white soldiers commanded them. Some of this ammunition included small caliber bullets, incendiary bombs, fragmentation bombs, depth charges, and bombs up to 2,000 pounds(Browne). The cargo nets were lowered by the ships booms into a hatch, where they were packed layer by layer and secured with dunnage.…
The fire not only claimed the air of Chicago, but also a district of Chicago named the “Burned District” for good reason. The “Burned District” serves as a memento for the people of Chicago as part of the great city they once use to live in; the district spanned over four miles by three-quarters of a mile wide, consisting of an approximate eighteen thousand buildings lost estimating to two hundred million dollars in property damage (The Ruined) in addition to the invaluable emotional damage. The aftermath of the fire had one favorable outcome in comparison to the outweighing negatives now affecting the economy of Chicago, the largest industries remain unscathed by the heat of the fire which still allowed for the ability to nationally access resources and markets (The Ruined). Chicago’s industries bought with surplus income and desire to expand burn up in the fire, causing Chicago to pick up the pace to prevent the possibility of a continually declining economy…
The city of Chicago was going through a drought and everything made of wood was dry. Some called the city “a meltdown waiting to happen.” There was a drought while the fire was going on so that's why the fire spread so quickly. Some might say that “what does that have to do with anything” but…
Chicago “A city ready to burn’’ In 1871, Chicago was a city ready to ignite from the flames of a dragon's breath flying over the city. In the book, The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy, the author clearly shows us this dragon. ‘First of all, the city was made of flammable things that could burst up into flames at any time it wanted too. Houses were wood, the streets, barns, and even the wagons.…
It also said in the article that, "Trees exploded in the extreme heat. Flaming hunks of wood flew across the forest, setting more fires miles away," saying that there were more fires being started because of this huge fire. The article also talked about the Great Chicago fire, even though less people died, it was more famous than the Peshtigo fire because Chicago was a more famous city than Peshtigo was. The effects that fires…
Styles and techniques are always changing so as time passed buildings probably would’ve been updated or reconstructed…
Chicago Five Themes of Geography When many people think of Chicago, they often think of a variety of many different things including the location of Chicago, the people, the culture, and methods of transportation throughout the city. Without realizing it, individuals often relate Chicago to the five themes of geography. By applying the five themes of geography to Chicago, people can get a good understanding of it without even visiting there. The five themes of geography include place, location, region, movement, human-environment interaction.…
Describe three ways that city life changed in the 1800s? Three ways that changed city life in the 1800s where “The most extensive urban renewal” because in the 1850s which took place in Paris the cities were very poor areas and there were rebuilding them to be in better condition. Georges Haussmann was a planner for Napoleon the 3rd and he destroyed almost all of the medieval streets especially in a poor section of a huge city in Paris. There were many people put to work to rebuild all the ugly houses because all the rich and nice houses were in pleasant neighborhood and the poor people in crowded slums near center in the city.…
This demonstrates the aftermath of the city when the Great Burning…
The Great Chicago Fire burned for 3 days, destroying over 200 acres and 17,000 homes, causing 200 million dollars in damage. This blaze resulted in 300 fatalities and left 90,000 homeless. Meanwhile the Peshtigo Fire was ablaze. This flash forest fire created a “tornado of fore” over 1000 feet high and 5 miles wide. As a result of these tragic fires, strict building and fire codes were enforced.…
In New York Burning, author Jill Lepore traces the history of the conspired slave rebellion, which transpired through “[a] series of fires in the winter of 1741.” As “panicked white colonists” began to fear “a slave uprising, [they] set off a cycle of arrests, accusations, hasty trials, executions and more arrests.” This was New York City in 1741 and the victims were predominantly slaves. Through the limited sources found on the slave conspiracy, Jill Lepore questions the validity of the writings found and takes a deeper look at the legislative and societal conditions between the slaves and their masters. By making use of excerpts from Jill Lepore’s New York Burning, I will discuss the contradiction of white colonists idea of liberty, versus their enslavement of thousands of African Americans and their justifications for it.…
The Chicago Fire of 1871, also called the Great Chicago Fire, burned from October 8 to October 10, 1871, and destroyed thousands of buildings. The fire killed 300 people and caused $250 million in damages. Stories says that cow kicked over a lantern in a barn and started the fire, but other stories told humans that a meteor might have been responsible for the event that left an area of about four miles long and almost a mile wide of the Windy City, including its business district, in ruins. Chicago was founded in 1833 by a man named Jean-Baptiste-Point Du Sable. Jean found Chicago when he was hunting for deer for his tribe.…