The city where this event took place lost hundreds more lives forty-four years later in the Eastland disaster.
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