For decades, many believed the origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was an ill-tempered cow kicking over a lantern. An insurance map of the fire’s path suggested otherwise. Around 9 p.m. on ...

An #Irish emigrant, O’Leary was falsely blamed for starting The Great Chicago Fire after a rumour spread that her cow knocked over a lantern in her barn. Despite being proved false years later ...

Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire Paperback” in 1985. “My goal,” he told the Tribune at the time, “is to have the comet dislodge Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and take its rightful place in ...

Daisy the cow almost certainly did not start the Great Chicago Fire. But that has not stopped as many as 50 people per week from calling a Chicago real estate agent; they are curious about a ...

And for well over a century, a cow belonging to Mrs. O'Leary caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But just as baseball fans know the Cubs' pre-2016 shortcomings had nothing to do with a curse ...

Daisy the cow almost certainly did not start the Great Chicago Fire. But that has not stopped as many as 50 people per week from calling a Chicago real estate agent — they’re curious about a ...

Popular legend that generations of Chicagoans were taught in school alleges that a cow belonging to ... Union at the time of the Great Fire and later a prominent Chicago attorney – and ...

Known as The Great Chicago Fire, the blaze burned through the heart ... Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn owned by the O’Leary Family at 137 DeKoven Street on the ...

Peggy's great great grandfather, James Ledwell, worked for Big Jim for a time before moving in to the more sedate business of seed selling. Chicago survived and thrived following the fire.

Despite the widely recounted story about a cow kicking over a ... Late this summer, I visited the Chicago History Museum, where you can learn a lot about the Great Fire from its thoughtful exhibits.