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Chicago Historical Society: The Great Chicago Fire
This resource provides information, and accounts about the Great Chicago Fire.
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Chicago Historical Society: Letter of William H. Carter on Chicago Fire
A letter written by an eye-witness of the Great Fire of 1871, it gives details about how the fire spread quickly and efforts to fight the fire.
University of Michigan
Making of America: The Lost City!
This site from the University of Michigan provides the full text of "The Lost City!" published a bare year after the Chicago fire; includes illustrations and accounts of the fire.
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The Great Chicago Fire
Read a letter by Horace White of the Chicago Tribune to a fellow editor in Cincinnati in which he describes first-hand during the days of the Chicago Fire of 1871.