The Great Fire Group

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updownsjenay
updownsjenay
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High School - 9th Grade

 After the fire, how many people were homeless?

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Posted by updownsjenay on Thursday January 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM and tagged with homelessness.

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  1. blazedale

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    In the book After the Fire, the number given is 100,000. According to Wikipedia, 90,000 people were left homeless by the Great Chicago fire. Either way, the number was roughly 1/3 of the total population of the city, which was 300,000 at that time.

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire

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    Posted by blazedale on Friday August 14, 2009 at 1:07 PM