-the great chicago fire-
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[the great chicago fire (of 1871) was a ‘conflagration’ that burned from…]
‘8 october 1871’
(a ‘sunday’)
…to early tuesday, ’10 october 1871′
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*~3 DAYS*
((it was (put out?) sometime in the ‘early morning’ hours)
*killed (up to) 300 people*
*destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of ‘chicago’ (/ ‘illinois’)
(left more than 100,000 residents ‘homeless’)
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