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Your search for: great AND fire AND chicago


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Books on: great fire chicago

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Encyclopedia Articles on: great fire chicago

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  • Chicago , City, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1989. Bibliography See R. A. Cromie, The Great Chicago Fire (1958); C. Condit, The Chicago School of Architecture (1964); T. A. Herr, Seventy Years in the Chicago Stockyards (1968); H. M. Mayer and R...
     
  • Insurance
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...at Charleston, S.C. Fire insurance corporations were...was begun. The New York fire of 1835 called attention...maintain such reserves. The great Chicago fire (1871) emphasized the costly nature of fires in structurally dense modern...
     
  • Peshtigo
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...tools. A nearby memorial and museum recall the Peshtigo Fire, Oct. 8, 1871, in which 1,182 people were killed...occurred in a remote area and on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire, it is little remembered. See study by R. W. Wells...
     
  • Illinois , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Illinois, through the Great Lakes, to the eastern...Illinois Waterway links Chicago to the Mississippi basin as the old Chicago and Illinois and Michigan...Springfield is the capital; Chicago , Rockford , and Peoria...and its reserves are greater than any other state...structures when the fire of 1871 destroyed most...
     
  • Steel
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...other substances together in a fire-clay and graphite crucible...Pittsburgh, one of the worlds great steel centers, built its first...Bessemer steel rails were rolled in Chicago as early as 1865. Types and...cutting tools because of its great hardness and brittleness; low...
     

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