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Relive Chicago’s defining disaster and its enduring aftermath. This definitive edition recounts the great conflagration that reshaped a city and challenged a nation, blending narrative immediacy with careful context to illuminate how Chicago survived and rebuilt.
Across firsthand scenes and documentary detail, the book traces the fire’s reach, the fierce effort to protect lives and property, and the long process of recovery. It combines dramatic eyewitness accounts with analysis of its economic and social impact, offering a clear portrait of urban crisis, resilience, and renewal.
- Eyewitness perspectives on the fire’s progression and its human cost
- Accounts of relief efforts, governance, and the logistics of reconstruction
- Historical context showing growth, industry, and city planning after the disaster
- Illustrations, maps, and appendices that illuminate the event and its aftermath
Ideal for readers of American urban history and anyone curious about how a city emerges from catastrophe to rebuild and advance.
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Print on Demand. This book presents a detailed history of Chicago, Illinois. Included are discussions of the city's development from a small settlement into an international hub. The author draws upon a rich cache of primary source material including newspapers, government documents, and personal accounts to bring to life the events and circumstances that shaped this great city. The book gives thorough coverage to several important chapters in Chicago history, including the fire of 1871 and the years of reconstruction that followed. The author places special emphasis on the remarkable growth and development of the city during the 19th century, tracing its key industries and the role that immigration played in its rise to prominence. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781330539279_0
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Chicago and the Great Conflagration Classic Reprint
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