This story originally ran in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 11, 1871, which was the first edition of the paper published after the Great Chicago ... Let us all cheer up, save what is yet left ...

wrote the Tribune in 1958. Workers clean up rubble from the Great Central Station, located at the foot of Lake Street after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. The broken stone and bricks were dumped ...

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There are several factors to consider, said Carl Smith, author of “Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City,” in an email to the Tribune. Was the ...

Official property deeds stored in the Cook County Courthouse were destroyed when the building went up in flames in ... property ownership after the Great Chicago Fire. The archives estimate ...

The day before the Great ... up in flames. Attorneys lost the law books they used to search for precedents. Between 2 million and 3 million volumes were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire, the Tr ...

Chicago, 125 years ago, was a rambunctious frontier town that impressed visitors with a sense that something great or disastrous was in the offing. “See two things in the United States if ...

The year after the Great Chicago ... a call by hitching up their horses, using a fire pole, and heading out of the fire station, published in the March 11, 1888, Chicago Tribune.