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  Back to Where It All Started, 1996  
Back to Where It All Started, 1996
(digital photograph)		 Enduring Symbol
The inscription at the base of Egon Weiner's 1961 sculpture in front of the Chicago Fire Academy at Jefferson and DeKoven reads, "Here Began the Chicago Fire of 1871."


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
Copyright © 1996 by the Chicago Historical Society and the Trustees of Northwestern University
Last revised 10-8-96