The date on which this event took place saw a similar and more deadly catastrophe in Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
The city where this event took place lost hundreds more lives forty-four years later in the Eastland disaster. The date on which this event took place saw a similar and more deadly catastrophe in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. In the aftermath of this event, Joseph Medill was elected mayor, and the need for architects led many designers, such as Louis Sullivan, to move in permanently. For 10 points, name this event which originated on De Koven Street in a barn belonging to the O'Learys and displaced 100,000 people in 1871.
The city where this event took place lost hundreds more lives forty-four years later in the Eastland disaster.
{Great Chicago Fire} of 1871