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Book

The great fire

Call Number

  • *J 977.31 M (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Scholastic Inc., c1995.

Physical Description

144 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Summary

The fire of 1871 left Chicago a wasteland with nearly 100,000 homeless people, but they were able to rebuild the city.

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