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search Artist's rendering of the fire, by John R. Chapin,
originally printed in Harper's Weekly; the view faces northeast
across the Randolph Street Bridge.  The Great Chicago Fire was a
conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early
Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people,
destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of Chicago, Illinois,
and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.[1] Though the
fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th century,
and destroyed much of the city's central business district,
Chicago was rebuilt and continued to grow as one of the most
populous and economically important American cities. The very
night the fire broke out, an even deadlier fire annihilated
Peshtigo, Wisconsin and other villages and towns north of the
city Green Bay.    The fire started at about 9:00 P.M, October
8, in or around a small barn that bordere