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Great Fire of 1871:
With hundreds of primary sources, relates how the great Chicago fire of 1871 raged while deadly fires also burned in Peshtigo, Wisconsin and central Michigan.
http://www.click2disasters.com/great_fire/great_fire_ch1.htm
Investigates the cause of the Great Chicago Fire, formerly blamed on a cow thought to have kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn.
http://www.thechicagofire.com/
A bird's-eye view of pre-fire Chicago describes Chicago up to the eve of the fire; section entitled "The Great Conflagration" examines the calamity itself.
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf-index.html
Photographs and sketches, essays and eyewitness accounts of the October 9, 1871 fire that killed over 300 persons and destroyed much of the city.
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html
