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Great Chicago Fire, The (Images of America)

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After a hot and very dry summer, Chicago was once in large part a wooden tinderbox awaiting a spark that would come at the Sunday night of October 8, 1871. What became referred to as “the Great Chicago Fire” was once a massive firestorm that moved faster than most men could run, fueled by southwest winds of no less than 30 miles per hour. The heat was once so intense it melted stone and brick buildings in minutes and turned sand at the lakeshore into glass. A total of 18,000 buildings were destroyed. About 100,000 were left homeless, and over 300 lost their lives. The exact same day, and nearly the same hour, both the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and Peshtigo, Wisconsin, suffered similar firestorms. Peshtigo’s was once even worse, creating an event that came to be referred to as “the Peshtigo Paradigm.” Many of us consider the three fires forming an enormous triangle of destruction were related as one with cosmic causes, and it remains a mystery to at the moment.

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