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Essay heading: chicago fire
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The day the fire started there were over 55 miles of pine-block street and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks. "Chicago in 1871 was a city ready to burn," according to Jim Murphy, author of The Great Fire (Murphy, 18).
It was Sunday October 8th about 8:45pm, when Daniel "Peg Leg" Sullivan went to visit the O'Learys' house only to find out they were asleep...
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So Sullivan walked across the street to Thomas White's house and sat down to lean against the fence. The wind was very strong that night and there was a party at the McLaughlin's to celebrate the arrival of a relative from Ireland. Sullivan decided to go home when he noticed a fire in the O'Learys' barn...
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