The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 reduced the city’s entire commercial center and adjoining residential neighborhoods to a smoking ruin. It killed an estimated 300 people and left about 90,000 ...

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Owners of 27 years who made artful updates to an early-1870s house on Menomonee Street are asking a little under $1.9 million.

As an architect specializing in single-family residences throughout the Los Angeles area, I’ve witnessed firsthand how urban disasters fundamentally ...

Despite the frequency of wildfires in that part of the country, it was immediately evident that this was different—the kind of inferno that could potentially alter the city forever, like the Great ...

The Los Angeles fires were burning evidence of how dangerous this delusion is. The fires were a bonfire of bad ideas that had ...

Historian Steve VanderVeen returns to The Sentinel for a three-part series about Eighth Street landmark The Warm Friend.

The cost of the fires in Los Angeles County is estimated to range up to $250 billion, far more than the damage done by the Great Chicago Fire which destroyed that city in 1871. The losses from the ...

For those interested in history, Chicago has much to offer. From remnants of the Great Fire of 1871 to homes of renowned residents, Chicago is full of interesting historical buildings and landmarks.

Haeger Potteries opened in 1871 and supplied bricks that helped rebuild Chicago after the Great Fire. In the early 1900s, it turned to making pottery and glazed artware. It shut down in 2016.