Her obituary and death certificate listed the cause as acute pneumonia ... Recollections of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 published by one of the O’Learys’ neighbors alleged that some ...

The Great Chicago Fire is the most famous inferno in American ... the prime suspect among fringe theorists as the true cause of the 1871 fires. The timing wasn’t utterly impossible – October ...

After those two catastrophic days in October 1871, when more than 2,000 ... That she is regarded as the cause, even accidentally, of the Great Chicago Fire is the grief of her life.

For a century and a half, Chicagoans have argued over the cause of a devastating fire that destroyed the city in 1871. This general view shows the Chicago Court house and downtown area in the ...

O ver the span of just a few days in October 1871, the Great Chicago Fire devastated the city, claiming the lives of more than 300 people and leaving over 100,000 residents homeless.

In addition to the loss of life, the fire burned from Oct. 8 to Oct. 10, 1871 ... southwest side of Chicago. However, other theories said it could have been due to human causes or even a meteor ...

As a comet nears the sun, the incredibly high temperatures cause its frozen gases ... had been burning, and in Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 7, 1871, a terrible fire had destroyed four blocks near ...

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 burned through approximately 3.3 ... had not yet swapped them for iron.” While the exact cause remains unknown, the fire is believed to have started in or near ...

The day before the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago Tribune ... for a public library, a cause seemingly reduced to ashes along with the city on Oct. 8 and 9, 1871. Afterward, the newspaper put ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or near a barn on what we would now call Chicago's Near West Side. Popular legend that generations of Chicagoans were ...

“That she is regarded as the cause, even accidentally, of the Great Chicago Fire is the ... Fire was not even the worst fire that occurred on that night in 1871: Two hundred and fifty miles ...