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At 9:45 p.m. on a Sunday, it was bedtime for most people in the booming city of Chicago, Illinois. But it was around this time on October 9, 1871 when the fire alarm rang in box 342. This was the first of three alarms that were set off, the third and final being a general alarm that summoned every available engine in the area to the scene. Flames were seen rising from a small stable behind a house …

…west. This made it a huge melting pot of people, businesses, and cultures, thereby representing almost every nationality, every race, and every religion. Chicago was and is American Heritage. Due in part to the success of the “Great Rebuilding”, Chicago became better than anyone could have imagined. Chicago is alive with Americans more than ever before. This amazing disaster, in turn, helped preserve one of the biggest and most prosperous cities in the country today.