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HOLY COW! HISTORY: America’s Worst Fire, 150 Years Later
It remains in American memory as the mother of all blazes. Exactly 150 years ago, the Great Chicago Fire blew through the Windy City with a vengeance, killing some 300 people, blackening more than 2,100 acres, and destroying property valued at an estimated $4.7 billion in today’s dollars. Yet a far deadlier, vastly bigger, and
