Thursday, September 08, 2022

Horse-drawn streetcars still operating amidst the gutted buildings and smoldering ruins at State and Madison streets after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871


 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/great-chicago-fire-photos-1871




1869 map of Chicago, altered to show the area destroyed by the fire (location of O’Leary’s barn indicated by red dot).

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