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365jdb What Los Angeles Can Learn From Another Great American City That Burned
When the monumental fire of October 1871 struck Chicago, the city, which had been a tiny frontier outpost only four decades earlier365jdb, was home to about 330,000 people. The fire destroyed the entire downtown business district and North Side.
Although the devastated part of Chicago was much smaller than the area hit by the Eaton fire in Los Angeles this month, it was far more densely settled. Close to 18,000 buildings went up in smoke, including the City Hall and virtually all important wholesale and retail stores; banks; law firm, newspaper and business offices; hotels; cultural institution buildings; and all the records, inventory, cash, furnishings and other items of value within them. Some 90,000 Chicagoans lost their homes; the equivalent figure for Los Angeles in 2025 would be over a million.
“You can scarcely imagine the desolation,” a traumatized Chicagoan wrote to a friend a few days after the flames died. “If a man wants his mind impressed with what the end of the world will be, let him come here.”
Yet it wasn’t the end of the world, or even of Chicago. The scale and speed of the rebuilding was, if anything,66br more impressive than the destruction. Within two years, a new and greatly enlarged downtown had emerged. By 1880 the population reached half a million. It was twice that a decade later, at which time Chicago was second in size only to New York among U.S. cities.
Chicago was rebuilt so quickly for the same reasons it burst into a major metropolis in the first place: By the 1830s, it became clear that the expanding nation needed a mercantile, transportation and communications center in just the spot where the city was located, at the southwestern edge of the Great Lakes, between the cities, markets and factories of the East and the natural resources of the West.
The fire did nothing to damage Chicago’s most important asset, its location, not to mention the energy and determination of its people. It remained a splendid place for investors to commit their money and individuals to root their lives.
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