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  Fire Show, 1946  
Fire Show, 1946 Onward to the Centennial
Private enterprise, with the cooperation of the Fire Department, again played a major role in the seventy-fifth fire anniversary celebration. The local press meanwhile urged the city to attack the current post-war housing shortage with the same energy it had confronted a similar challenge after the great conflagration left so many people homeless.


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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