The Chicago Stockyards Fire
One of the most disastrous fires in the history of Chicago was the recent conflagration in the stockyards district in which over 500 people were rendered homeless and many lost their lives i... Read allOne of the most disastrous fires in the history of Chicago was the recent conflagration in the stockyards district in which over 500 people were rendered homeless and many lost their lives in the roaring, seething cauldron of flames, which stubbornly resisted the efforts of the f... Read allOne of the most disastrous fires in the history of Chicago was the recent conflagration in the stockyards district in which over 500 people were rendered homeless and many lost their lives in the roaring, seething cauldron of flames, which stubbornly resisted the efforts of the fire department. It occurred in "Whiskey Point," a ramshackle tenement district in the outs... Read all