Mother Jones lost her entire family to yellow fever, then her business in the #GreatChicagoFire. Instead of succumbing to trauma, she led multiple movements of people proclaiming, "Pray for the dead, fight like hell for the living" Learn from @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/FT0kootLdfg?...
#GreatChicagoFire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3
#GreatChicagoFire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3
The 1937 movie In Old Chicago shows how the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started: An overly sensitive nursing cow -- who knew how to break the fourth wall. #chicago #greatchicagofire
1871 map of Chicago showing the damage from the Great Chicago Fire, with an inset showing the location of Lewis Williams’ home on South Wabash.
Today we remember the #GreatChicagoFire, which occurred October 8-10, 1871. At the time—before his part in creating the first Cohasset Punch—19-year-old Lewis Williams was a business student living with his parents in Chicago. Their home on S. Wabash Ave. was only two blocks south of the burn zone.
It's the anniversary of the #GreatChicagoFire. They blamed the Irish immigrants back then. Who are we scapegoating today for Chicago's "rampant" crime and murders?
#iceraids #immigration #undocumented #handsoffchicago
It's the anniversary of the #GreatChicagoFire. They blamed the Irish immigrants back then. Who are we scapegoating today for Chicago's "rampant" crime and murders?
#iceraids #immigration #undocumented #handsoffchicago #pcusa #chicagopresbytery @pcusa.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1871, the #GreatChicagoFire began, killing more than 200 people in #Chicago & destroying 17,450 building, leaving 100,000 homeless & causing $200 million in damage ($4 billion in 2021 dollars); Patrick & Catherine O'Leary's cow was unfairly blamed & she became a recluse after the fire
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Irish immigrant Mrs. Catherine O’Leary, falsely blamed for the Great Chicago Fire, rests at:
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
Section 10
2755 W. 111th Street
Chicago, IL 60655
This St. Patrick’s Day, we honor her truth and memory. May her soul rest in peace. 🍀🔥
#ChicagoHistory #GreatChicagoFire #FamousGraves
#OnThisDay in 1871, the #GreatChicagoFire began, killing more than 200 people in #Chicago & destroying 17,450 building, leaving 100,000 homeless & causing $200 million in damage ($4 billion in 2021 dollars); Patrick & Catherine O'Leary's cow was blamed & she became a recluse after the fire, dying in 1895. Mrs. O'Leary & her cow were exonerated by the Chicago City Council in 1997... https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/great-chicago-fire-begins
#OnThisDay in 1871, the #GreatChicagoFire began, killing more than 200 people in #Chicago & destroying 17,450 building, leaving 100,000 homeless & causing $200 million in damage ($4 billion in 2021 dollars); Patrick & Catherine O'Leary's cow was falsely blamed...
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I did not celebrate America’s birthday today but I am acknowledging the 150th birthday of the Henry Godknecht House in Palatine. The #GreatChicagoFire burned down Henry’s cigar business. So he sold cigars in the front room of his new home, which was kept in the family until 1974.
Footage from a recent trip to Chicago's @NewberryLibrary, which was built on the block formerly occupied by the Ogden mansion.
Ogden's mansion miraculously survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Episode 322 of the podcast.
#ChicagoHistory #GreatChicagoFire #DroneChicago
Mahlon Ogden's home, one of the few structures in the path of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, was eventually replaced by the Newberry Library, a research library which stands today.
Episode 322 of the podcast.
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Barracks for those made homeless by the Great Chicago Fire were built in Washington Square Park, located across the street from what was left of the destroyed Unity Church.
Episode 322.
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@NewberryLibrary
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The Ogden mansion, built in 1859, was one of two north side houses in the path of the Great Chicago Fire to survive.
Episode 322 of the podcast looks at The Great Chicago Fire: The Ogden Mansion, the Barracks, and the @NewberryLibrary.
#ChicagoHistory #GreatChicagoFire
For the 150th anniversary of the #GreatChicagoFire today, I wrote about the buildings that survived and were constructed immediately after the fire in Old Town and Lincoln Park. You gotta love those shelter cottages!...
The Bellinger cottage (pictured in July 2019) was one of two homes on the north side to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Hear this story and more in episode 321 of the podcast.
#Chicago #History #ChicagoHistory #GreatChicagoFire #HistoryMatters #HistoryNerd
The most recent issue of @StreetWise_CHI has a nice piece on the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire by writer Suzanne Hanney. If you see a Streetwise vendor, be sure to pick up a copy.
#ChicagoHistory #EmpoweringPeopleToWork #GreatChicagoFire #HistoryMatters
Today's @chicagotribune includes "The Great Rebuilding: Chicago 150 Years After the Fire." In ep 321 of the podcast author @KateChicago discusses her graphic novel "The Great Chicago Fire: Rising From The Ashes."
@01se #ChicagoHistory #GreatChicagoFire #KidLit #ChicagoAuthors
The mansard roofed three-flat built by Anton Kolar in 1880 is where the #GreatChicagoFire began, burning one-third of the city between October 8-10 1871. By the 1950s it was cleared for industrial development. Today the site’s occupied by the Chicago Fire Academy. 📸 Mildred Mead
In an Old Town alley there's a surviving 2-room relief shanty built for $100 by the Chicago Relief & Aid Society after the #GreatChicagoFire
Commemorate the #GreatChicagoFire by burning down your town, except for the water tower. That can survive. And don't forget to blame a cow.
I don't have a cool old photo of the #GreatChicagoFire but I do have a pic of tourists posing next to a fire station.
