Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
Second Friday Lecture: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
Friday, October 13 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Speaker: Carl Smith The Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871 which destroyed the heart of the country’s rising inland metropolis and left a third of its population homeless, is one of history’s great disasters. If anything, the city’s rapid recovery was even more remarkable, revealing both […]