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#47 Workers walk through the wreckage near the remains of the courthouse and City Hall, background, in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire.

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#47 Workers walk through the wreckage near the remains of the courthouse and City Hall, background, in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire.

The Great Chicago Fire 1871: Historical Photos that Depict the Destruction caused by the Great Disaster

#47 Workers walk through the wreckage near the remains of the courthouse and City Hall, background, in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire.

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←#46 Ruins of the old Farewell (also sometimes spelled Farwell) Building on Washington Street after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.
#48 A view looking north at Franklin and Madison streets in Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.→

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