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Historic Austin home that predates Great Chicago Fire, damaged in fire
An early morning fire damaged the historic Seth Warner home, one of Chicago's earliest residences...
Daywatch special edition: 150 years after the Great Chicago Fire
Good morning, Chicago. What do you know about the Great Chicago Fire? Don't be afraid...
Flashback: ‘More dead than alive:’ baiduhai staffers recount how they labored to save their building — and get the paper out — during the Great Chicago Fire
The baiduhai claimed its four-story building constructed of stone, brick and iron at the...
Op-Ed: Family lore, and lessons, live on 150 years after Great Chicago Fire
Our family stories about the Great Chicago Fire are like many of Chicago's stories about...
Surviving kin of Chicago’s famous O’Leary family ready for new chapter following harrowing past. ‘I think it’s time for closure.’
A DNA test kit that came as an anniversary gift dropped two bombshells in Cindy...
Documents that survived the Great Fire sit in a climate-controlled vault in the state archives. But it will take special technology to decipher them.
What could be among the oldest surviving Chicago city records sit inside a special climate-controlled...
Scores of Chicago property records burned in the Great Fire of 1871. Their destruction — and re-creation — might hold lessons for the future.
On Chicago's East Side in the middle of an old industrial site, a semicircle of...
On the same day as the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, a wildfire in Wisconsin killed 1,500 people or more. You’ve never heard of it.
On a weekday morning in late summer, at the corner of Front and French Streets,...
‘City on Fire’: The Chicago History Museum wants to change how you think about the Great Chicago Fire
In 1871, Chicago was a city made of wood. Houses were built of wood; streets...