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Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
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9781540212047
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Forgotten Fires of Chicago: The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
$31.99
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Sale 8%
Chicago's war against cinder, flame and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. That conflagration was only one engagement in a ceaseless and often unrecognized conflict, fought in the most unlikely places. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility one and a half miles off the Lake Michigan shoreline, transforming the pipe-laying operation into a raging inferno. During the World's Columbian Exposition, thousands of fairgoers watched in horror as twelve firefighters were trapped in a blazing ice warehouse. An operagoer left a smoking bomb under his seat at the Auditorium Theater in 1917, and the newly invented smoke ejector arrived too late to save firemen and laborers cut off in a sewer in 1931. Join John Hogan and Alex Burkholder for the history of these forgotten fires and the heroes who fight them.
| Author: John F. Hogan |
| Publisher: History Press Library Editions |
| Publication Date: Nov 11, 2014 |
| Number of Pages: 146 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1540212041 |
| ISBN-13: 9781540212047 |
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