Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years
Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...
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Palisades Fire in California dwarfs the Great Chicago Fire in size
As California battles the massive Palisades Fire, its sheer size puts the historic Great Chicago Fire of 1871 into ...
Michigan has seen three of the deadliest fires in U.S. history
The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...
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The big lie that surrounds State Farm, Arizona and the LA fires | Opinion
State Farm Insurance is not the bad guy for canceling policies before the LA fires. If anyone is to blame for that, it's ...
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The New Combustible Age
The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...
How does the Great Chicago Fire compare to Palisades fire? A look at the numbers
The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...
Editorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles
Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...
California wildfires: In raging Los Angeles inferno, echoes of the great fires of London and Chicago
As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...
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What was Chicago’s most consequential year? It may not be what you think.
Historians say it’s an impossible question to answer. Major events have shaped Chicago from its very start in 1837, but one ...