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The Harper's Weekly staff reworked their bird's-eye view of the city just before the fire
into this image of it in distress. Unfortunately, they were a little careless on the details.
The fire appears to have begun a few blocks south of Lincoln Park in the North Division,
and is raging away in a south-southwesterly direction--just the opposite
of its actual path. The lithograph of the burning of Chicago prepared by Currier & Ives, perhaps
influenced by this illustration, also depicts the flames going in the wrong direction.
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Inside the Burning City 