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Such scenes as this one led many to compare newly-destroyed Chicago to the
storied ruins of Europe and the ancient world. Trinity Episcopal Church was
erected in 1860 on the south side of Jackson Street between Michigan and Wabash.
Following its destruction in the fire, it moved out of the center of the city,
locating in 1873 at Michigan Avenue at 23rd Street, which was at that time the
poshest residential area in Chicago. The movement of churches away from the
expanding business district was one of the pre-fire developments that the great
conflagration accelerated. Images like this one evoked the frequent
comparisons of newly destroyed Chicago with the picturesque Old World.
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Among the Ruins 