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.

It was completed in 1869, according to published reports, and it survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 along with the Water Tower itself. Before the Lookingglass, the Chicago Avenue Pumping ...

The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...

A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the ...

As this season's tournament - the 144th edition - reaches the fourth round, we turn the clock back to the very first staging of the world’s oldest club competition.

From remnants of the Great Fire of 1871 to homes of renowned residents, Chicago is full of interesting ... and the holding of feminist ideals in the days before women’s suffrage.

If we look back to October of 1871, the city of Chicago was swept over by a raging fire reducing buildings ... of her citizens has not given way, and before the smoke has cleared away, and the ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

Before the election ... After the devastating 1871 fire, Chicago rebuilt with stronger fire protections. Los Angeles should learn from its example, Carl Smith writes. Why don’t we have a ...

The area was already a work in progress, and days before the federal law took effect establishing the territory, a fire swept through ... before venturing on to Chicago. Long live the king ...

In 1868, fireworks lit up Nyack’s night sky after a political rally at the Wigwam, a bustling community center on South ...