3 results for "Chicago Fire" OR "Chicago Great Fire"

After the Chicago fire, Saint Xavier Academy takes posession of an entirely new building at 29th and Wabash Ave

The ruins of Saint Xavier Academy after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871

John Valentine Lips was born in 1833, in Saxony Germany and came to America in 1853 where he lived in Buffalo, New York, for seven years. Married to Elizabeth Langlitz in 1856, they spent 55 years tog…