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Chicago newspaper with a map of the Great Chicago Fire...
Chicago newspaper with a map of the Great Chicago Fire...
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October 14, 1871
CHICAGO EVENING JOURNAL, Illinois, Oct. 14, 1871 Just a few days after the Great Chicago Fire destroyed over 3 sq. miles of the city, the Journal put out this issue reporting the latest evenings. Features is a great and detailed front page: "MAP OF THE FIRE" which shows the burnt-out district. Also column heads: "TO-DAY" "Proclamation by the Mayor Turning Over to the Chicago Aid and Relief Society the Distribution of Provisions" "The Plan of Work Adopted by the Society's Committees" "Partial List of Business Firms who Suffered by the Fire" "What is Being Done and to be Done in Rebuilding" and more.
Page 2 has a lengthy editorial headed: "Our Great Calamity" as well as other reports: "General Losses" "Our 'Friends In Need' " "The Press of Other Cities" as well as reports of another destructive fire in Peshtigo, Wisconsin.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, old tape at the front page folds with some wear & minor perforation loss at the horizontal fold. Uncommonly displayable issue & terrific to have in a Chicago newspaper.
Category: Post-Civil War
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