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Palisades Fire in California dwarfs the Great Chicago Fire in size
As California battles the massive Palisades Fire, its sheer size puts the historic Great Chicago Fire of 1871 into ...
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2 biggest wildfires scorch almost 4 square miles
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...
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The New Combustible Age
The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...
How does the Great Chicago Fire compare to Palisades fire? A look at the numbers
The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...
The big lie that surrounds State Farm, Arizona and the LA fires | Opinion
State Farm Insurance is not the bad guy for canceling policies before the LA fires. If anyone is to blame for that, it's ...
Editorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles
Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...
Michigan has seen three of the deadliest fires in U.S. history
The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...
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6 fires that helped shape the development of American cities
Chicago and the Midwest, 1871 Chicago is the great American fire everyone thinks of. “The great legend of Chicago is that it’s a ‘phoenix city’ — it almost instantly rebuilt itself ...
California wildfires: In raging Los Angeles inferno, echoes of the great fires of London and Chicago
As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...
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What was Chicago’s most consequential year? It may not be what you think.
Historians say it’s an impossible question to answer. Major events have shaped Chicago from its very start in 1837, but one ...