Citizens escaping across the Randolph Street bridge during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 which burned from October 8 to October 10 and destroyed an area of about kilometers by kilometers wide (approximately 4 miles by 1 mile). 300 people died. 100,000 people were left homeless. The disaster led to a construction boom. After a work published by Currier and Ives.

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