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Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center

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Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Chicago Waterworks Visitors Center
Phone:
+1 312-742-8811

Address:
163 E Pearson St, Chicago, IL 60611-2162

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.Help flowed to the city from near and far after the fire. The City of Chicago improved building codes to stop the rapid spread of fire, and re-built rapidly to those higher standards. A donation from the United Kingdom spurred the establishment of the Chicago Public Library, a free public library system, a contrast to the private, fee for membership libraries common before the fire.
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