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Old Posted Oct 1, 2019, 2:25 PM
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Originally Posted by balletomane View Post
^ It would be like going back in time to Chicago before the fire....... one wonders how the urban fabric of those cities might be different today (if much at all) without their disasters.
without the great fire of 1871, chicago would almost certainly be A LOT less "bricky" than it is today.

and yes, it would be fascinating to travel back to pre-fire chicago. it would have been a completely different city, probably unrecognizable to my eyes. my earliest chicago ancestors were german immigrants who arrived here back in the 1850s. their family home was destroyed in the great conflagration. oh to be able to go back in time and have a beer at some ramshackle 19th century saloon with my great-great-great-grandfather.
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