Consider, for example, the birth of modern architecture a remarkable result of the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.

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The great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, apocrophally started in Mrs.

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The great Chicago fire in 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 1906 were tides of destruction rolling for days across large, unfocused landscapes.

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The story of the fire is featured in a colorful new Internet exhibit: "The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory" chronicles the devastation and the inventions it wrought.

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Regardless of how it happened, the devastation of the Great Chicago Fire quickly turned into one of the young city's great blessings, as the moment in history and the location at the heart of a growing industrial nation ensured that Chicago would not merely be rebuilt.

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Chicago marked the anniversary of the Great Fire by honoring its contemporary fire heroes.

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After the great fire of 1871, which destroyed the homes of a third of the city's inhabitants, Chicago decided to rebuild itself in style.

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