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| Sacred Site, 1952 (Photograph by Betty Hulett) |
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| Just as the O'Learys were affectionately accepted into Chicago folklore, the location of where the fire began assumed an elevated status and became a center of civic ceremony. Here a crowd including nuns and schoolchildren gather in front of where the O'Leary home once stood for festivities that include a nineteenth-century steam engine manned by firefighters in uniforms from the period. | |||
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