What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire?
Margaret Talbot reviews “The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul,” by Scott W. Berg.
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Margaret Talbot reviews “The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul,” by Scott W. Berg.
What happened at the Riverside Mobile Home Park is a welcome bright spot in a state littered with flooded out homes and businesses. And it showed that lessons learned from, and mitigation efforts performed because of, Irene had paid off.
In the late summer days following Tropical Storm Irene’s rampage through Riverside Mobile Home Park in Woodstock, Nelson Gilman and Al Pristaw loaded donated orange juice, bread and carefully placed cartons of eggs into a wheelbarrow.The two longtime...