Kevin Pearce, who grew up in Wilmette, vividly remembers learning a song about the Great Chicago Fire when he was 4 or 5 years old. The words go something like this: One dark night, when we were all ...
In Chicago last week aldermen meditated on a resolution to purchase as a memorial the site where famed Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern that started the great fire of 1871.† Bull In Newark, ...