🔥On October 8, 1871, a massive fire broke out near Chicago's downtown area that eventually burned four square miles of the city to the ground. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 would leave 300 dead, 100,000 homeless & 17,450 buildings destroyed. Damages totaled $200 million pic.twitter.com/qrHfpzP4at— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) October 8, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
This Day In History, 1871: The Great Chicago Fire
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