The Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame
by
John F. Hogan, Alex A. Burkholder
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A historical journey through the city’s catastrophic fires, and the stories of the heroes who fought them.
Chicago’s war against cinder, flame, and smoke did not end with the Great Fire of 1871. In 1909, fire ripped through the dynamite room of a staging facility a mile and half off the...