3-034-704 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Great Fire at Chicago: views in the city, 1871. Before the fire. 'Clark-Street North; view from the dome of the City Hall; stock-yards; corn elevators[of Sturges, Buckingham & Co.]...The fire which destroyed, last week, the best part of one of the greatest commercial cities in the world is still the most engrossing topic of news...[We present views] of Chicago as it was before the fire...the Illustrations engraved for this Number of our Journal will be viewed with a melancholy interest, as representing what has perished... The Great Union Stock-yards covered a space of 345 acres, with accommodation for nearly 120,000 animals - cattle, hogs, and sheep... One of [the grain elevators] stored 1,600,000 bushels, and the storing capacity of three others was 1,250,000 bushels'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.