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CHICAGO HISTORY

By Anonymous
 On Sunday October 8, 1871 a fire was started in Chicago, yet the reason still remains unknown. Many skeptics have multiple ideas on how the fire started. The oldest and most iconic is the Great Chicago Fire was started by Mrs. O’ Leary’s cow. Who supposedly kicked over a lantern while the cow was being milked. The O’Leary’s were a poor family with three children. The fire lasted two days and died out on an early Tuesday morning. With a result of killing about 300 people, and destroying 2,112 acres of land. Not only that, the fire left more than 100,000 people homeless. The blaze lasted so long because Chicago at the time had rough winds and dry conditions. The reporter, Michael Ahern later on admitted in 1893 that the story of the O’Leary’s was fake. Therefore the cause of the Great Chicago Fire is still unknown.

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