As author Robert Cromie states in his book The Great Chicago Fire; The buildings were like an enormous artificial forest, drying out in a sun-heated oven. ... The O'Leary's barn encompassed combustible materials such as hay, and wood shavings like most of the barns contained, making it an extremely flammable barn to begin with. 25 Although this is the most common story evidence suggests that the O'Leary's neighbors, "Pegleg"" Daniel Sullivan and Denis Regan stopped into their barn to have a smoke and accidentally set the wood shavings and hay lying on the floor on fire. ...

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In his book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg brings to light how a number of social, political, ecological, and economical factors aligned to create one of the largest and most traumatic meteorological events in recent history. ... This area, which in the book Ethnic Chicago Jorge Caruso and Eduardo Camacho define by its "lively streets, taco stands, and bodegas", has supplied a number of jobs to the community and has attained a level of stability which keeps generations of families in close proximity to each other. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In his book Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Eric Klinenberg brings to light how a number of social, political, ecological, and economical factors aligned to create one of the largest and most traumatic meteorological events in recent history. ... This area, which in the book Ethnic Chicago Jorge Caruso and Eduardo Camacho define by its "lively streets, taco stands, and bodegas", has supplied a number of jobs to the community and has attained a level of stability which keeps generations of families in close proximity to each other. ...

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• Approx Pages: 11