Discover key events on October 8 including the Great Chicago Fire, Soviet satellite transmission, and worldwide ...
In recent years, large wildfires have laid waste to towns in the West. But two late 19th-century fires in the upper Midwest ...
The Peshtigo Fire remains the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history, and yet, very few outside the state know it ever happened.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - A spark in a barn ignited one of the biggest fire disasters in American history on Oct. 8, 1871. The two ...
PESHTIGO, Wis. (WBAY) - Although it was overshadowed by the Chicago fire that happened the same day, the Peshtigo fire is the ...
On this day in 1871, a fire that began in a small barn tore through Chicago, killing 300 people, leaving 100,000 homeless, ...
1949: Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino, aka “Tokyo Rose,” whose family lived in Chicago, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. She was convicted on one count of treason for broadcasting ...