ID: 901002615 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002615	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Great Chicago Fire (American event, 1871)

Note: Conflagration that burned October 8-10, 1871, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago. Ttotal area burned was 2124 acres; number of buildings destroyed was 17,450; people who died numbered 300; persons rendered homeless, 98,500.

Display Date: 1871

Names:

	Great Chicago Fire (American event, 1871) (preferred,English-P,D)
	Great Fire, Chicago, Ill. (American event, 1871) (English)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........<United States history> (P)
		............Great Chicago Fire (American event, 1871) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... fire (event)
	.....(events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Chicago
	..... ULAN Candidate

Sources:

	Great Chicago Fire (American event, 1871)
	................BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Great Fire, Chicago, Ill. (American event, 1871)
	................Library of Congress (2016-) sj2021052601

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) https://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Great-Chicago-Fire/443657
	................ Ancestry.com [online] 2000- Chicago Tribune Archive online