BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//chikkutakku.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN X-WR-CALDESC:GoogleカレンダーやiCalendar形式情報を共有シェ アしましょう。近所のイベントから全国のイベントま で今日のイベント検索やスケジュールを決めるならち っくたっく X-WR-CALNAME:ちっくたっく X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Great Chicago Fire\, Chicago\, IL (1871) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251008T040000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251009T040000Z UID:301775274236 DESCRIPTION:Probably few infernos have been as famous as the one that rava ged much of Chicago in October\, 1871\, leaving more that 17\,000 structur es burned and 90\,000 people homeless. Fortunately\, it spread slowly enou gh that fewer than 300 died in the flames\, but that’s of little consola tion to those who were forced to face a cold Midwestern winter without she lter as a result. While there is no doubt the fire started in a barn on th e O’Leary property at 137 DeKoven Street\, there is no evidence it was c aused by the poor woman’s cow kicking over a lantern. (That story was ma de up newspaper reporter who later admitted he did so because he thought i t made for more “colorful” copy. Modern researchers instead have come up with a hypothesis that it may have actually been started by a transient smoking in the barn and inadvertently setting the hay inside alight.) In any case\, like the London fire of 1666\, the fire paved the way for a new and improved Chicago to rise from the ashes that would within a few short decades make it the great metropolis it is today. It also led to much nee ded firefighting reforms that would one day make Chicago’s fire departme nt one of the best in the country and be a template by which other large c ity fire departments would base their own procedures. Not bad work for one bad bovine.\n LOCATION: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR