SYSK Selects: Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 7 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, Josh and Chuck find who's probably to blame for the Great Chicago Fire. The newspapers of the day reported that a cow (or perhaps its owner) was responsible for a fire that burned half of Chicago in 1871. Yet in 1997 Mr

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.8	Hey everyone, this is Chuck and welcome to Stuff You Should Know Saturday, Selects.
0:35.8	I'm picking this one this week from July 19th, 2012.
0:39.1	Did a cow start the great Chicago fire?
0:42.1	You all know I love my history episodes, especially those where we can set something straight
0:47.5	that history you might have gotten wrong in class at least as a kid.
0:52.7	And we talk a great length today about the great Chicago fire, one of the great tragedies
0:58.2	in American history.
1:01.2	Give it a listen and I hope you enjoy it and I hope you have a great weekend.
1:11.4	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know from Howstuffworks.com.
1:21.2	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:22.7	I'm Josh Clark.
1:23.7	There's Charles W. Chuck O'Brien.
1:27.9	I guess that makes me the cow.
1:31.5	This is Stuff You Should Know.
1:32.7	Daisy the Cow?
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