Chicago, in 1871, was alive to the giddy possibilities of modernity. The city had shot up from a flat expanse of grasses and wild garlic plants nearly overnight. In 1830, it had possessed a population of less than 100. Four decades later, its 330,000 inhabitants thronged the crowded streets, filling the vast lumber piles, grain silos, and stockyards to the brim. This seemed, to many, less urban growth than a force of nature.Yet nature is often unkind. On October 8, a fire that started in the city’s West Division tore through Chicago’s densely packed grid, feeding so hungrily that balls of flame shot into the sky. It seemed that the “dogs of hell were upon the housetops,” the Chicago Tribune’
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