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These two cartoons indicate how the fire legend had become a kind of comic story
that the city told about itself. In the scene on top, from the front page of
the Chicago Tribune on the sixty-third anniversary, the famed cartoonist
John T. McCutcheon grants Mrs. O'Leary's cow not only forgiveness but a full
pardon. In Burr Shafer's drawing on the bottom,
most likely from the 1960s (when Margaret Scriven was Librarian at the
Chicago Historical Society), Daisy's descendants discuss her great
accomplishment.
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The Saga Continues 