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View of the ruins of Bigelow Building on Dearborn Street after the Chicago Fire of 1871.

View of a crumbling building and debris, including four men in hard hats in the foreground, in the wake of the riots that erupted in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Luth…

City Hall and Courthouse on October 8 and October 13, 1871, before and after the Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago, Illinois.

View of the Cook County Courthouse, seen through ruins of east side of Clark Street after the Chicago Fire of 1871.

View north from the Water Tower after the Chicago Fire of 1871, taken circa 1871-1872. This is one of a series of views documenting the progress of rebuilding from the top of the Water Tower. The lake…

View of the ruins of the Chicago Historical Society building after the Chicago Fire of 1871. The Society was located at Ontario and Dearborn Streets.

A group of people examine a partially demolished building and the ruins of other structures destroyed during the riots that erupted following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Chica…

Kerfoot's Block after the Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago, Illinois.

Statue of the Republic after the Peristyle fire; Chicago, Illinois, 1894.

Lithograph titled the Fire Escape. Illustration features a group of women and children trying to escape a burning building during the Chicago Fire of 1871. It reads: An incident of the Chicago Fire. A…

View shows men in hard hats, probably a clean-up crew, standing near the wreckage of a building destroyed in the riots that erupted in South and West Side neighborhoods following news of Dr. Martin Lu…

Illustration of crowds of people trying to escape over Randolph Street Bridge during the Chicago Fire of 1871. From the October 28, 1871 issue of Harper's Weekly.

View of Schock, Bigford, and Company, the first store opened in the burnt district after the Chicago Fire of 1871.

Print depicting the Great Fire of 1871. It reads: The Burning of Chicago. This terrible conflagration commenced on Sunday evening Oct. 8th, 1871, and continued until stopped by the rain on Tuesday Mor…

View of the corner of State and Madison Streets after the Chicago Fire of 1871, Chicago, Illinois.