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  Fire Sale  
Fire Sale Pieces of the Past
This stack of invoices is a reminder of the millions of crucial business documents and property records that were lost in the conflagration, and, like the city itself, had to be reconstructed afterwards.


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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