CHICAGO FIRE & FIRES IN CHICAGO

1857, October 19th, the Brothel Conflagration on South Water Street.

1871, September 30th, the Burlington Warehouse Fire.

1871, October 7th, the "Saturday Night Fire" Struck Chicago in the evening.

1871, October 8th, the Great Chicago Fire; the O'Leary's and their Cow.

1871, "YOU ARE THERE" A Historical Non-Fiction ~ Narrated by Walter Cronkite.

1871, Large Map Showing the Burnt Area from the Great Chicago Fire.

1871, "Personal experiences during the Chicago Fire." 40pg PDF booklet.

1871, The Great Chicago Fire Destruction at Fifth Avenue & Madison Street.

1874, July 14th, the "LITTLE BIG FIRE."

1877, November 14th, Field, Leiter & Company Department Store Fire. 

1885, March 21st, the Hotel Langham was Destroyed by Fire.

1893, July 10th, World's Columbian Exposition Cold Storage Building Fire.

1894, August 8th, The Great Rogers Park Community Fire.

1903, December 3rd, Iroquois Theatre Fire Claimed over 600 People.

1910, March 25th, L. Fish Furniture Fire, 19th Street & Wabash Avenue 

1910, December 22nd, The Union Stockyards Fire.

1912, January 5th, Union Stock Yards Transit House Hotel (Hough House).

1922, March 15th, the Burlington Office Building Fire, Chicago.

1934, May 19th, The Union Stockyards Fire.

1946, September 9th, the Hotel LaSalle Fire.

1950, May 25th, Green Hornet Streetcar Causes an Inferno with Gas Truck.

1953, April 17th, the Haber Corporation Fire.

1958, December 1st, Our Lady of the Angels School Fire.

1967, January 16th, the First McCormick Place Fire.

1971, March 1st, Chicago's Old Town Neighborhood's Fire in Piper's Alley.

2004, December 6th, the LaSalle Bank Fire. 

2012, May 20th, the Indian Boundary Park, Fieldhouse Fire, Chicago.