How does the Great Chicago Fire compare to Palisades fire? A look at the numbers
The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...
6 fires that helped shape the development of American cities
These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...
Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years
The Eaton and Palisades fires have collectively burned almost 4 square miles of highly dense parts of Los Angeles, according ...
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The New Combustible Age
The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention ...
Editorial: From the city that used fire as a catalyst for reinvention, good wishes for Los Angeles
Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...
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What was Chicago’s most consequential year? It may not be what you think.
Historians say it’s an impossible question to answer. Major events have shaped Chicago from its very start in 1837, but one ...
Chicago transplants flee wildfires raging across Los Angeles: ‘I just didn’t know how fast things could spread’
An estimated 180,000 people have fled their homes this week as firefighters battle to control several deadly wildfires across ...