great fire of 1871

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• - Photographs and sketches, essays and eyewitness accounts of the October 9, 1871 fire that killed over 300 persons and destroyed much of the city.
  
• - With hundreds of primary sources, relates how the great Chicago fire of 1871 raged while deadly fires also burned in Peshtigo, Wisconsin and central Michigan.
  
• - Investigates the cause of the Great Chicago Fire, formerly blamed on a cow thought to have kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn.
  
• - Personal page about a paranormal investigation report and historical information about the incident.
  
• - A bird's-eye view of pre-fire Chicago describes Chicago up to the eve of the fire; section entitled "The Great Conflagration" examines the calamity itself.