Friday, October 08, 2010

The Great Chicago Fire: 139 years ago today

Panic on the Randolph Street Bridge

The whole cow story was a lie cooked up by a newspaperman. To this day no one knows with certainty how the great fire started. The end of the 1937 classic film "In Old Chicago" contains a remarkably good (for the era) depiction of the fire with all the chaos and panic.

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