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» Click2Disasters: The Great Fire - With hundreds of primary sources, relates how the great Chicago fire of 1871 raged while deadly fires also burned in Peshtigo, Wisconsin and central Michigan.

» Did The Cow Do It? - Investigates the cause of the Great Chicago Fire, formerly blamed on a cow thought to have kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn.

» The Great Chicago Fire - A bird's-eye view of pre-fire Chicago describes Chicago up to the eve of the fire; section entitled "The Great Conflagration" examines the calamity itself.

» The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory - Photographs and sketches, essays and eyewitness accounts of the October 9, 1871 fire that killed over 300 persons and destroyed much of the city.

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