Great Chicago Fire

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The Great Chicago Fire was one of the most horrible disasters in history. The incident was when the city of Chicago experienced a horrible spread of fire from an unknown source. Before the fire, Chicago was a huge city that was mostly made out of a very flammable type of wood, and during the time the city had not gotten any rain, and the winds caused the fire to spread even faster. The fire was said to be started at Catherin O’Leary’s barn, and many people say that it started when she was…

Final Draft The Great Chicago Fire was fire that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. This fire killed up to 300 people, it also destroyed about 3.3 miles square miles of Chicago Illinois and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event, but there were some benefits that came after the deadliest fire in the history of the United States of America. Many people are only told about the devastation of the fire but, there…

On October 8th, 1871, a tremendous fire broke out in the city of Chicago. Everyone had been doing their normal daily deeds when an unexpected fire started. The fire killed hundreds and left thousands homeless. This disaster fire grew quickly making it difficult to stop it as it spread north and east to the center of the city. Many people still to this day do not know or have evidence on how this chaos began. Although there are many theories about it, the O’Leary cow theory is the most…

The Chicago Fire Chicago, 1871 it was a day like no other. It was a day where everything went to flames. It was the time where sacrifices were made. It is a day of the great chicago fire. It was a city ready to burn. It was like any other day in chicago, it was sunday the wind was blowing very hard, it had been like this for a while now, the people of chicago pretty much got used to it, but that is not all to the story. In the windy city mostly everything was ready to burn. One of the…

The Chicago Fire On that devastating day on October 8, 1871, the unspeakable happened, when a fire broke out in a barn, the owners of the barn being the O’Learys, that soon destroyed almost all of Chicago. In this essay, I will be proving the statement “Everything Went Wrong,” out of a book that I read about the Chicago fire, called The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy. Here are some details to prove that during that fire “Everything went wrong.” My first detail to show that “Everything went wrong”…

When someone mentions the Great Chicago Fire most people just think of the cow that tipped over the oil lantern, but there was really a lot more to it. 18,000 wood buildings were destroyed, 100,000 people were left homeless, and 120 bodies were found but it is estimated that about 300 people died. There is a debate about whether or not the fire left a negative or positive impact in the long run. The negative effects were all the damage done to the city, the amount of people left homeless, and…

On October 8, 1871 a fire broke out that caused much misfortune and destruction to the city of Chicago. While the true cause of the fire is unknown, there are things that are well documented such as some reasons why the fire got so big so quickly, the effects the fire had, and the aftermath of the fire. The Great Chicago Fire was a large fire that burned out of control because many mistakes were made that lead to horrible consequences that would bring many changes to the society. One of the…

On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871. At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it just picked the fire up and threw it from house…

The Chicago Fire of 1871 Introduction The Chicago fire of 1871 was a very devastating and controversial event. A lot of things contributed to the fire in Chicago. These many factors were the drought and lack of rain the town had been having for 100 days before the fire. It was such a controversial event, because of how many people think it started. Some thought it was because of the lack of rain and dry weather. Others thought it started because of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow. Few people thought that…