Hot Time in Old Town Tonight- The Story of the Great Chicago Fire during the 1800's

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Hot Time in Old Town Tonight A blanket of darkness surrounded the city after a day filled with people routinely bustling around. This slumbering city was rudely awakened when someone shouted "Fire!" Sheer mania enveloped this town as it struggled, to no avail, to extinguish a fire that raged with the vengeance of a roaring lion. Little did the people know what the inferno would do. This great fire can best be illustrated by describing …

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…educate the public on the devastation tragedies of this magnitude can generate. Works Cited "Fredrick Law Olmsted: The Chigago Fire." The Annals of America. 1976 ed. The Great Chicago Fire. [Online] Available http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf- index.html. October 29, 1999 Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995. Quentin Volunteer Fire Department. [Online] Available http://www.quentinvfc.com/firelore.htm. February 15, 2000 Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc., 1975.