Chicago’s remarkable renewal after its own disaster offers reassurance and lessons for how Los Angeles can recover.

O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern that allegedly started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 has the Windy City seen the likes ...

Environmentalists file lawsuits to delay or stop construction, while liberal California judges too often rule in favor of the ...

In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on ...

In regions where fire is a natural phenomenon, organisms have adapted to cope with periodic fires. Terrestrial mammals and ...

Ever since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow attempted to burn the city down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicagoans have loved eating ...

A ribbon cutting was held Monday for the Lookingglass Theatre Company's new multi-purpose lobby at its home in the Water ...

The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...

According to folklore, this hapless bovine kicked the lantern and became the culprit that started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Truth is, we’ll never know who started the Great Chicago Fire ...