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  The Courthouse  
The Courthouse, 1871
(P.B. Greene, Photographer)
Arresting Images
{ Red/Blue Stereograph }

One of the most often photographed of the ruins, the charred and crumbling shell of Chicago's center of government was a moving symbol of the way the fire had destroyed the heart of the city.


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Copyright © 1996 by the Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University
Last revised 10-8-96