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Our American Stories

The Great Chicago Fire—and the Even Greater Chicago Recovery

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:45.2

Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, and we tell a lot of stories about our nation's past.

0:52.4

And this one next, well, it's a story, well, part of a story that

0:55.8

you know, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but the more interesting story, which is the Great

1:01.8

Chicago Recovery. And we're telling this story to you today because on this day in history, in

1:06.9

1871, the great Chicago fire started.

1:17.9

Experts agree on where that fire started, but how it started remains an open question.

1:24.0

And so we bring you Tim Samuelson, the cultural historian of the city of Chicago, to tell us about this area and dive into the mythology of how the Chicago fire got

1:30.4

started. It was an area of small shacks and cottages of largely Irish immigrants. The fire itself

1:39.7

began in the barn of Patrick and and katherine o'leary

1:45.8

for the scale of mrs o'leary and her existence in the neighborhood

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