https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5 Make sure to cite the source you used and date if applicable. en-us 2018-02-21 16:32:57 UTC 2025-07-17 06:51:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Thunder.png wreitz https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692610 2019-02-25 04:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692610 wreitz https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692664 2019-02-25 04:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692664 wreitz https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692816 2019-02-25 04:04:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692816 wreitz https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692963 2019-02-25 04:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/334692963 somar1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394581 buildings were made from wood and flammable materials ]]> 2019-02-26 15:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394581 aterrell3 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394728 O'Leary and her cow

]]> 2019-02-26 15:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394728 klozadamartinez https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394731 The wind was very aggressive which caused the fire to spread
Source: "An Awful Calamity," Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), October 9, 1871, Page 1, Image 1, col. 4..

]]> 2019-02-26 15:02:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394731 dkim37 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394750 300 people killed,100,000 people homeless, $200 Million worth of property damage.

Source: Mental Floss Magazine
Matt Soniak.]]> 2019-02-26 15:02:52 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394750 kbaldwin15 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394799  the fire leveled more than 3 square miles of the city

]]> 2019-02-26 15:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335394799 ahussain24 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395038 Mrs, O Leary was milking her cow around 9pm when the cow kicked over a lantern and this caused the fire to start. ]]> 2019-02-26 15:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395038 aterrell3 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395629 a comet]]> 2019-02-26 15:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395629 asabet https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395632 2019-02-26 15:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335395632 jethakattu https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335396945 2019-02-26 15:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335396945 sbabu2 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335396968 2019-02-26 15:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335396968 dradu1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397180 Source: Mental Floss Magazine
Matt Soniak.]]> 2019-02-26 15:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397180 dkim37 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397233 Sullivan walking past his house to smoking a pipe by a barn.

]]> 2019-02-26 15:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397233 sbabu2 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397593 The cow]]> 2019-02-26 15:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397593 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397674 2019-02-26 15:07:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335397674 jreynoso4 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335398680 2019-02-26 15:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335398680 dradu1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399086 More than 3 square miles of Chicago was leveled out fire to the fire.
Source: We Still Don't Know How The Great Chicago Fire Started by Jennifer Latson.]]> 2019-02-26 15:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399086 njohn3 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399169 Smithsonian magazine]]> 2019-02-26 15:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399169 ehurtarte https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399550 Time Magazine]]> 2019-02-26 15:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399550 spoggas https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399713 Started in a ally and spread through blocks in the neighborhood (Mental Floss Magazine)

]]> 2019-02-26 15:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399713 lspeer1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399934 Source: Mental Floss Magazine 
 ]]> 2019-02-26 15:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399934 imasini https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399982 2019-02-26 15:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335399982 ehurtarte https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400205 Time Magazine]]> 2019-02-26 15:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400205 sbabu2 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400235 300 people killed]]> 2019-02-26 15:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400235 ajeemon https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400731 The fire started in the barn behind Catherine O'Leary West Side. O'Leary was in the barn around 9.p.m. milking her cow, when the cow kicked over lantern and sparked the inferno. O'Leary herself consistently denied this account saying that she never milked after dark. ]]> 2019-02-26 15:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400731 imontesinos https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400936 Mrs O Leary and her cow]]> 2019-02-26 15:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335400936 jreynoso4 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401194 source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033699/1871-10-10/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=10%2F08%2F1871&sort=date&date2=12%2F31%2F1871&words=fire+Fire+FIRE+firing&sequence=1&lccn=&index=16&state=&rows=20&ortext=fire&proxtext=&year=&phrasetext=&andtext=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=range&page=1]]> 2019-02-26 15:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401194 sbabu2 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401617 Mrs. O'Leary and her cow.]]> 2019-02-26 15:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401617 dirving5 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401633 time magazine

]]> 2019-02-26 15:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401633 dradu1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401864 The firefighters had a hard time to stop the fire due to the wind]]> 2019-02-26 15:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335401864 cvivit https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402093 Time Magazine

]]> 2019-02-26 15:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402093 jgohel1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402613 Some people have suggested that pieces of the Biela's Comet (a periodic comet which disintegrated around the time of the fire) might have fallen to Earth and have triggered the fire.  --Time Magazine (We still don't know how the Great Chicago Fire Started: Oct 8, 2015)]]> 2019-02-26 15:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402613 sbabu2 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402934 2019-02-26 15:14:24 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335402934 njohn3 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403410 smithsonian]]> 2019-02-26 15:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403410 spalakkattu https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403713 2019-02-26 15:15:38 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403713 czulewski https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403923 They reported seeing burning natural gas as theorized by the comet camp. ]]> 2019-02-26 15:15:57 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335403923 ajeemon https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335404335 Two days later blazed died out, after burning nearly 3 and third square miles of the city. The Great Chicago Fire killed 300 people left some 100,000 homeless and destroyed $200 million worth of property. ]]> 2019-02-26 15:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335404335 spalakkattu https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335405010 2019-02-26 15:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335405010 cvivit https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335405433 Time Magazine

]]> 2019-02-26 15:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335405433 ctuch https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406804 https://factslegend.org/20-interesting-great-chicago-fire-facts/

]]> 2019-02-26 15:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406804 czulewski https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406826 Source: Time Magazine and Mental Floss Magazine]]> 2019-02-26 15:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406826 ajeemon https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406869 Mental Floss Magazine by Matt Soniak
Time Magazine by Jennifer Latson ]]> 2019-02-26 15:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335406869 jgohel1 https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335407006

St. Michael’s Church, Old Town

Chicago Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station

St. Ignatius College (now St. Ignatius College Prep, on Roosevelt)

Holy Family Church

]]> 2019-02-26 15:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335407006 jethakattu https://padlet.com/maine207/a7bh3hx8fmq5/wish/335415042 destroyed the 20 year old Court house,The Sherman house and a lot of buisnesses on Clark street.

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