What Really Caused the Chicago Fire?

What Really Caused the Chicago Fire?

By Marc Roland. When I was a boy in the 1950s, my great-grandmother told me how she survived American history’s epic conflagration: the Great Chicago Fire. Despite Frances’s 90-plus years, she was still physically and mentally vigorous, with a photographic memory going back to her Civil War-era upbringing. The old lady lucidly recalled that fateful…

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