Chicago City Of The Century Summary

On 1871, October 8th a fire started in a town called chicago on the property of catherine o’leary’s farm. This is how the chicago fire happened and how they rebuilt from it and how it affected the people of chicago.

Chicago from the1920s through the 1940s was the melting pot of America, with its multitude of vastly different people and different types of housing and living conditions. Around the early 1920s in Chicago, 80 percent of the undeveloped city were immigrants from Europe and their children. A majority of the houses in Chicago in the 1920s were set up to improve immigrants’ living conditions. These houses were often large complexes in which immigrants lived together in and were provided meals and tutoring in English. After World War I ended in 1918, many people moved from small rural communities in the Midwest to Chicago. This resulted in the construction of many large apartment buildings in place of old townhouses. In large cities like Chicago,

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was one of the largest disasters in American history. Practically overnight the great city of Chicago was destroyed. Before the fire there was a large drought causing everything to be dry and flammable, then a fire broke out in the O’Leary’s barn and spread throughout the city. Many attempts were made to put out the fire but there were too many errors and problems in the beginning. After the fire many people were left homeless and had to help build their city again (Murphy, 39)

Throughout the mid 1800´s Chicago was undergoing substantial growth. The city had a population of 30,000 in 1850 and within 30 years had grown to nearly 90,000. Middle class individuals settled the outskirts of the city expanding it's borders. Lower class individuals continued to settle in the downtown districts. This resulted in an extremely dense concentration of people and wooden structures which would contribute to the extensive damage caused by the fire.

In 1871 Chicago [ The Windy City} was a city that was more than ready to burn it was one of the most flammable time in Chicago history. This time in history was one of Chicago's most devastating times that chicago has ever.This fire destroyed the majority of all of chicago. In Jim Murphy’s book The Great Fire chapter 1 “A City Ready To Burn” talks about this topic and how Chicago was ready to burn.

First of all, two-thirds of the city was made of wood. There was wooden buildings, stores, frames, and lots more. There were 59,500 buildings that were destroyed in the fire. That made it burn more and more. The fire started at the home of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. The wood was a bad thing. Since the whole town was made of

The Great Chicago Fire was a tragic event to happen in the city's history. While the cause of this major fire is unknown, Chicago's wood buildings and dry summer made the fire much worse. There are a few theories to how this fire started, but what is known for sure is that it started in the O'Leary's barn. This particular fire lasted two days and spread quickly. Firefighters were contacted, but were sent to the wrong place, causing chaos and delays as they tried to find the fire. By the time firefighters got there, the fire was spreading from house to house, already unmanageable. Before they knew it the fire had taken over the city. Within two days, the water tank in the city had run out of water. Luckily before the fire moved further, on October 10 1871, it was put out by nature's rain.

Did you know that the Chicago Fire burned 3.3 square miles and left more than 100,000 people homeless and killed more than 300 people. The Chicago Fire started on October 8, 1871, by a cow that kicked over a lantern into dry grass and started a barn fire, which spread quickly throughout the city . The firemen had a large effect putting out the Great Chicago Fire.

Many people want to know how did the Chicago fire start, I believe the Chicago fire started with a lighted lantern knocked over by a cow. The fire started October eighth through October tenth 1871. The fire started at night. The fire broke out of control and spread quickly because all the buildings were made of wood. As soon as the fire started the firefighters came right away to try to put the fire out. The fire took a while to get put out, the fire fighters quit fighting the fire the day before, after two days the rain began to fall and the fire died out. It took the fire three days to die out.

It all started on 137 De Koven Street, in Catherine and Patrick O’Leary’s Barn. Daniel Sullivan ,who was a friend and the first one to discover the fire, did not hesitate to call out for help. When the fire was barely 15 minutes old, the O’Leary’s barn and neighboring houses were already engulfed in fire as families stood outside, watching, and waiting for any kind of help to arrive.“The absence of rain for three weeks [has] left everything in so flammable a condition that a spark might set a fire which would seep from end to end of the city.” Reported the Chicago Tribune in the Sunday Edition.

The World’s Fair benefited Chicago because it brought new jobs. Clearly, the Fair needed workers to build its structures. Larson gave an example of where workers were needed when he stated, “Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root’s grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building’s frame. They cocooned the frames in scaffolds of wood and faced each frame with hundreds of thousands of wooden planks to create walls capable of accepting two thick layers of staff” (Larson 144). The World’s Fair had many buildings that needed to be built and “hundreds of thousands of wooden planks” that needed to be framed to create the walls of

A city’s core filled with an enormous amount of life and different characters wondering freely through the streets. The central business district, with colossal sky scrapers that illuminate the night sky known as “Downtown”, Downtown Chicago is better than Downtown Phoenix for three specific reasons.

My capstone project was to go to Chicago and to see many high quality art in art museum and murals/monuments in public in the city. It was also to study the diverse art culture of Chicago.

The movie Divergent, takes place in the future in the city of Chicago. The plot of the movie is the division of society into five factions: Abnegation who value selflessness, Amity who value peace, Candor who value honesty, Dauntless who value bravery, and Erudite who value intelligence. The separation of people through factions, is used as a method to remove the threat of anyone exercising free will to ensure the safety of mankind. Once a year, every sixteen-year-old must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. After taking an aptitude test and choosing a faction, they must successfully pass initiation through the faction which they have chosen. If they fail initiation, they are then rejected from society, or

the things to come and exited by the countless possibilities offered by one of the largest cities of the late 19th century – Chicago.