Fire damaged a portion of the former Haeger Potteries facility in East Dundee, which the village is in the process of selling ...

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

Chicago was rebuilt so quickly for the same reasons ... taxes for improved fire protection. Chicago’s fire commissioners predicted the 1871 disaster, but the mayor and aldermen knew that raising ...

As unprecedented fires consume Los Angeles, the architectural profession confronts an urgent need to revolutionize building ...

There are numerous attractions in Chicago, including museums, architecture, parks, and iconic food that can keep visitors ...

The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...

The cost of the fires in Los Angeles County is estimated to range up to $250 billion, far more than the damage done by the Great Chicago Fire which destroyed that city in 1871. The losses from the ...

Chicago in 1871, Boston in 1872, San Francisco in 1906. And then they stopped. New rules prohibited wood construction and mandated fire escapes and industry-developed steel structures, engineers ...

I understand that the city of Austin, Texas, used its experience with a huge wildfire in 2011 to think and rebuild better ... over and over again. We had the Chicago and the Peshtigo Fire of 1871.