Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... in this interactive timeline and map. 1. Before the fire The Sunday morning sun rises on four city blocks destroyed by a fire that had burned through the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or near ... Its site was the present—day site of the Joffrey Tower. Before the fire, the site had housed Hall ...

While the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 reduced much of the city to ashes ... which were common before the Great Chicago Fire.

Chicago’s fire commissioners predicted the 1871 disaster, but the mayor and ... Its housing shortage, already a crisis before the fires, has now reached an emergency level.