Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook37 pages2 hours
The Great Chicago Fire: A Cause-and-Effect Investigation
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
About this ebook
On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago. Jumping rivers and burning miles of buildings and homes, the flames raged for more than two days. More than a hundred people died, and thousands were left homeless. Could the city have prevented this blaze?
To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did Chicago's building methods add fuel to the fire? How did human error delay help when the fire broke out? Investigate the disaster from a cause-and-effect perspective and find out!
Read more from Michael Regan
George Washington and the American Presidency Bad Days in Science and Invention Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVladimir Putin: President of Russia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSouth America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Great Chicago Fire
Related ebooks
Uncle Tom's Cabin (MAXNotes Literature Guides) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stealth Lovers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Novels of Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, The Last Man, and Mathilda Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red Fairy Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Cozy Book Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLights! Camera! Alice!: The Thrilling True Adventures of the First Woman Filmmaker Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRobin Hood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lost King of Oz Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Botany Bay Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ebb-Tide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Mapmakers' Race Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess and the Goblin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Blue Cat of Castle Town (A Newbery Honor Book) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwo Bicycles in Beijing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTerra Mechanica Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gadsby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Lost Princes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRolf in the Woods: The Adventures of a Boy Scout with Indian Quonab and Little Dog Skookum Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of Old Giralliya Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Golden Cat Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Best of Jeffrey Ford Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pirate Super Pack # 2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRainbow Dust: Three Centuries of Butterfly Delight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The School for Scandal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death by Airship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDoubt the Stars: Shakespeare In Space, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFantasy Magazine, Issue 91 (May 2023): Fantasy Magazine, #91 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dark Night's Work Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Terec and the Wall: Terec of Lund, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Children's For You
Workbook on How to Do the Work by Nicole LePera: Summary Study Guide Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Pete the Kitty and the Unicorn's Missing Colors Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coraline Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pete the Kitty Goes to the Doctor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anne of Green Gables: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Shadow Is Purple Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cedric The Shark Get's Toothache: Bedtime Stories For Children, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dork Diaries 1: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Don't Judge An Alligator By Its Teeth!: Benjamin's Adventures, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch of Blackbird Pond: A Newbery Award Winner Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Day My Fart Followed Me Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5House of Many Ways Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice In Wonderland: The Original 1865 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Lewis Carroll Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMuch Ado About Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAmari and the Night Brothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night: 10 Scary Stories to Give You Nightmares! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tower Treasure: The Hardy Boys Book 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tikki Tikki Tembo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Atlas Shrugged SparkNotes Literature Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLast Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents a Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thirty Days Has September: Cool Ways to Remember Stuff Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Peter Pan Complete Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Julie of the Wolves Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fixer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
#17 - what a NY Times best seller does when she's drawing a blank, literally 0% found this document usefulGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens: Charles Dickens's late masterpiece Great Expectat… 0% found this document usefulJane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 100% found this document usefulThe Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien: John and Andy are joined by Unbound co-founder an… 0% found this document usefulThe Podcast S2: Comedy, Romance, Pleasure, Pain - Adapting Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ 0% found this document useful141B-Robin Hood: The Hunted: The hunter has become the hunted 0% found this document usefulSome Bits To Listen To While We Go On Our Holidays: Even your favourite podcasts need to take a holid… 0% found this document useful“The Mathematician’s Ghost” 100% found this document useful285-The Grasshopper Plagues: In the 1870s, enormous swarms of grasshoppers beset pioneers on the American plains. 0% found this document usefulScavenging Allosaurus & Carnotaurus Skin 0% found this document useful“Barbarians at the Gate” 0% found this document usefulSybil: Hero of the American Revolution 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Favorite First Sentences Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young TeensArticle
Favorite First Sentences
Nov 1, 2021
1 min readMaking Tracks Total FilmArticle
Making Tracks
Apr 30, 2021
8 min readStep Into A Legend BBC Countryfile MagazineArticle
Step Into A Legend
Jan 13, 2022
3 min readChasing The American Dream History RevealedArticle
Chasing The American Dream
Oct 27, 2022
2 min readSisters And Other Life Forms Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young TeensArticle
Sisters And Other Life Forms
Jan 1, 2021
7 min readPostcards from Fairyland Fortean TimesArticle
Postcards from Fairyland
Jun 15, 2023
10 min readThe Fate Of The House VisiArticle
The Fate Of The House
Jun 6, 2018
Today, the house on the hill wrestles for air. Pile upon piles of tree branches, bark and dry leaves clutter the driveway. At night it is dark, a ghost house. It wasn’t always like that. Squeezed between coloured Sydenham and Sparks Estate to the eas
3 min readHoaxer Or Hero? Scotland MagazineArticle
Hoaxer Or Hero?
Apr 14, 2022
4 min readDiscovering The Startling Truth BBC History MagazineArticle
Discovering The Startling Truth
Mar 14, 2024
2 min readA New Way for Gay Characters in Y.A. The AtlanticArticle
A New Way for Gay Characters in Y.A.
Mar 28, 2013
7 min readLet Freedom Ring Texas Highways MagazineArticle
Let Freedom Ring
May 23, 2023
22 min readOF MIST & MYTH National Geographic Traveller (UK)Article
OF MIST & MYTH
Feb 4, 2021
10 min readNew Romance Imprint From Entangled Writing MagazineArticle
New Romance Imprint From Entangled
Jan 5, 2023
Romance publisher Entangled Publishing has announced the launch of Red Tower Books, a new romantic science fiction and fantasy imprint, which will, the company says, ‘champion feminist and empowered perspectives in the fantasy and science fiction spa
1 min readBliss MetroArticle
Bliss
Jan 24, 2021
33 min read'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Puts The BOO! In Book Adaptation NPRArticle
'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Puts The BOO! In Book Adaptation
Aug 8, 2019
3 min read7 Things You (probably) Didn’t Know About samuel pepys History RevealedArticle
7 Things You (probably) Didn’t Know About samuel pepys
Sep 29, 2022
6 min readPalabra The Threepenny ReviewArticle
Palabra
Jun 1, 2023
WHEN JOSEPH brought his young wife Palabra to visit Grandmother, his brother Ned, worried by the warmth and expansion of his chest, avoided his wife Stacey's eye, and Stacey understood that all eyes, male, female, old, young, were going henceforward
5 min readWalking In Myths BBC Countryfile MagazineArticle
Walking In Myths
Jan 13, 2022
1 min readFailed Brailles Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and childrenArticle
Failed Brailles
Jan 1, 2022
2 min readAthena’s Owl Gets Updated World Coin NewsArticle
Athena’s Owl Gets Updated
Aug 2, 2021
THE OWL WAS associated with Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, from very early on in archaic artworks. Often depicted perching on Athena’s hand, I think the owl stays so close to imbue his wisdom to the goddess. Because of its strong connection wit
1 min readThe Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians Literary HubArticle
The Strangest Questions Ever Asked of New York City Librarians
Oct 28, 2019
5 min readFavorite First Sentences Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young TeensArticle
Favorite First Sentences
Jan 1, 2021
1 min readFollow Her Forward, The Innocent Hare Fortean TimesArticle
Follow Her Forward, The Innocent Hare
Jun 16, 2022
It was the edge of a scrubby wood in Suffolk, sometime when I was at university – 1972 or 1973. I was having a picnic with friends, and we were playing frisbee, a red one, and I was running across the lumpy grassy terrain to where it had dropped. As
12 min readWhen Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature Literary HubArticle
When Scientific Data Shapes Climate Literature
Jun 15, 2020
4 min readOpen Throat By Henry Hoke Review – Inside The Mind Of A Lion King The GuardianArticle
Open Throat By Henry Hoke Review – Inside The Mind Of A Lion King
Jul 16, 2023
Over the past few years, non-human narrators have cropped up repeatedly in experimental fiction. There was the slowly decaying protagonist of Emma Glass’s Peach and, most recently, in Maddie Mortimer’s Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, the villainous v
2 min readSpeaking Of Shakespeare Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and childrenArticle
Speaking Of Shakespeare
May 1, 2023
3 min readGuardians Of The Library Faces People, Places, and World Culture for Kids and ChildrenArticle
Guardians Of The Library
Apr 1, 2020
2 min read‘A Berwickshire Policeman, Frozen To Death’ History ScotlandArticle
‘A Berwickshire Policeman, Frozen To Death’
Dec 10, 2022
7 min readHunt For The abominable snowman All About HistoryArticle
Hunt For The abominable snowman
Nov 30, 2023
8 min readMagna Graecia Ancient History MagazineArticle
Magna Graecia
Feb 14, 2022
6 min read
Reviews for The Great Chicago Fire
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Great Chicago Fire - Michael Regan
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1