The Great Chicago Fire—and the Even Greater Chicago Recovery
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, this largely lost story is rekindled by Chicago historian Tim Samuelson, the first cultural historian of Chicago.
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| 1:01.4 | I'm Maura Erin Smealy, host of the Anxious Achiever. On the show, business leaders and experts unpack the intersection of mental well-being, neurodiversity, |
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| 1:47.8 | This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell a lot of stories about our nation's past. |
| 1:55.0 | And this one next, well, it's a story, well, part of a story that you know, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But the more interesting story, which is the Great Chicago Recovery. |
| 2:00.1 | Experts agree on where that fire started back in 1871, a little under two miles from |
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