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The Great Chicago Fire: The American Story That Rebuilt Me | Sloan
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A city burns for 36 hours, 100,000 people lose their homes, and a century later you’re still feeling the ripple effects every time you walk into a restroom. We start with the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, cut through the cow-and-lantern myth, and look at why Chicago was built to ignite and how the city used disaster as a chance to rebuild stronger. Then we zoom out to the Peshtigo Fire, the deadliest wildfire on the same night, and ask why one tragedy dominates the history books while the other barely gets mentioned.
From there, we get surprisingly practical about…
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