Chicago’s Proposed ‘Fire-Trap’ Ordinance Sparks Flames
North side after the fire (above) By Don DeBat Chicago may be the Windy City, but it also is home of some of the greatest fires of the past century. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871—when most city neighborhoods consisted of wooden balloon-frame homes—claimed more than 300 lives, displaced 100,000 people and scorched 3.3 square miles of the Windy City. A few years later, in 1903, the Iroquois Theater fire at 26 W. Randolph in Chicago’s Loop took 602 lives. In 1958, the devastati
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