Fire Occurrence
- When
- 1874-07-14
- Where
- Chicago, Illinois
- Part of
- Chicago Fire of 1874
The fire took place on July 14, 1874, burning a section of Chicago south of the core rebuilt after the 1871 fire.
The fire took place on July 14, 1874. The section burned lay south of the Chicago core that had been rebuilt after the 1871 fire. As the flames moved north along State Street, observers feared that the heart of the city's business district would be gutted again, as it had been in 1871. A 2009 columnist later claimed the fire originated in a small barn near Clark and 12th Street, a claim resembling a debunked theory about the 1871 fire's start.
Sources
- Chicago Fire of 1874 Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-01
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