CHICAGO (CBS)-- This week marks the 150th anniversary of the city's signature disaster. The Great Chicago Fire began on Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, on what we would now call the city's Near West Side. Over ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marks 150 years since the Great Chicago Fire. The Chicago History Museum opened the new exhibit "City on Fire" Friday, which takes people back to the moments before and after ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The assistant curator for the Chicago History Museum's "City on Fire" exhibit said visitors will "get a sense of fleeing the fire itself." Chicago was the fastest-growing city in the ...

Don’t call it a fire sale. A four-bedroom, four-bathroom Windy City home that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 — specifically, one of just three houses in the North Side that dodged the wrath ...

The conflagration burned through the Windy City Oct. 8-10, 1871. The same storm created a devastating fire in Wisconsin, too. Above is an illustration of an aerial view of the Great Chicago Fire of ...

On a hot and dry October night in 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O’Leary’s barn, starting a blaze that rose up from her modest Near Southwest Side home, leapt the Chicago River and burned ...

In December 1835, Lower Manhattan was decimated by a tragic fire that claimed 700 buildings. The destruction of the incident was exacerbated by frigid temperatures which froze the water from firemen’s ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Despite the fact that the City of Lake Charles was founded in the 1860s, most of the buildings downtown only date to 1911. That’s because a Great Fire destroyed seven city ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - 110 years ago, an event that completely changed the city of Bangor transpired. Known today as The Great Fire of 1911, Brian Sullivan joined a tour detailing it all. “It’s a ...