CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or near a barn on what we would now call Chicago's Near West Side. Popular legend that generations of Chicagoans were ...

{Polk and Canal Streets], Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1871 3. 10pm - midnight The fire, fanned by the strong southwest wind, is on the move -- and terrified Chicagoans start to flee. Struggling ...

“City on Fire: Chicago 1871.” Or, at least, it would have modified its dramatic promotional language: “A rapidly growing city built of wood. A summer-long heat wave. An exhausted and ...

THE tercentenary of the Great Fire of London (September 2–5, 1666) has given rise to discussion of the incidental meteorological factors. Atallah 1 compares the London fire with that at Hamburg ...