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This guide map, published just after the Great Chicago Fire, superimposes the burned area over the gridded street pattern. The fire started southwest of the city center and burned over 2,000 acres, noted by the shaded red area.
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- Map of Chicago Showing The Burnt District
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This guide map, published just after the Great Chicago Fire, superimposes the burned area over the gridded street pattern. The fire started southwest of the city center and burned over 2,000 acres, noted by the shaded red area.
Giving life to the people, buildings, and land that shaped the perspectives, relief efforts, and aftermath of the fire of 1871
Before and After the Fire: Chicago in the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s. Click on the links below to access scans of some of the sheet maps of Chicago from the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection.
17 Μαρ 2003 · 1871 Map of the Burnt District produced by New York clothier Freeman & Burr. Scale: 1:29,300. Gaylord Watson. Chicago Fire Map, 1871. From “The Great Conflagration of Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future” by Associate Editors of the Chicago Tribune, James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton.
8 Οκτ 2021 · Gaylord Watson, 1871. Geography and Map Division. The map above, printed in 1871, depicts the burned section of Chicago. The location of the O’Leary property, where the fire originated, would be roughly at the small protrusion seen in the lower left portion of the burn zone.
The fire destroys over 10,000 buildings and left the city in ruins. Read more about it! The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America .
