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State and Madison Streets
..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV.. Gutted buildings and smoldering rubble at State and Madison streets after the Chicago Fire in 1871. Chicago Tribun(Tribune archive photo)
Gutted buildings and smoldering rubble at State and Madison Streets after the Chicago Fire in 1871. The horse-drawn trolleys and people in the street have motion blur--and ...
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National Bank
Illustration of the ruins of the National Bank of Chicago destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire.
date: October 1871(1871-10)
Printed in Life Magazine October 1871. Downloaded from the Google/Life...
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Aftermath of the fire
corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, 1871corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, 1871
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Courthouse and City Hall
..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. Tribune archive photo of the aftermath of the Chicago Fire in 1871. The ruins of a courthouse and Cit(Tribune archive photo / June 25, 2008)
The ruins of a courthouse and City Hall (in background) in the days after the 1871 Chicago Fire. There are workers walking through the wreckage in the area ...
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Halt! Who Goes There?
The Waud DrawingsA soldier, his overcoat ruffled by the hot wind, questions two citizens trying to make their way across the city. This armed presence enforced the widely expressed comparison of fire-devastated...
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Men screaming
The fire in Chicago, northern Illinois, destroyed much of the city and left about 90,000 people homeless. Pictures gathered from many places in memory of one of the greatest fire in metropolitan area.
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Clark and Adams Streets
..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. Tribune archive photo of the aftermath of the Chicago Fire in 1871. The ruins of a courthouse and Cit(Tribune archive photo)
The ruins of a courthouse and City Hall, looking north on Clark Street from Adams Street in the aftermath of the 1871 Chicago Fire. A food shack had already sprung up for...
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Rendering of the Fire
Artist's rendering of the fire, by John R Chapin, originally printed in Harper's Weekly; the view faces northeast across the Ran
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View at Wacker & Lake Streets
..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. Tribune archive photo of the aftermath of the Chicago Fire in 1871. The ruins of a courthouse and City Hall (in background) in the aftermath of the 1871 "Great" Chicago(Tribune archive photo)
The roads and ruins of Chicago in the aftermath of the 1871 Chicago Fire. You can see the Chicago River in the background.
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