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Karen Sawislak

Smoldering City

Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874

403 pages, 15 halftones, 1 map  6 x 9  © 1996
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226735481   Published December 1995

Related links: An excerpt from chapter one gives a brief account of the Great Chicago Fire.
Visit the Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory a website created by the Chicago Historical Society in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: Barriers Burned
2: Relief, Aid, and Order
3: Burdens and Boundaries
4: The Meanings of Cooperation
5: Laws and Order
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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