THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE! – Not the TV show or the sport!?

On Sunday evening October 8th 1871, just after 9:00pm, a fire broke out in the barn behind the home of Patrick & Catherine O’Leary at number 13 DeKoven Street, Chicago, IL 60607

THIS SATURDAY THE 4th OCTOBER is the big night for the Great Chicago Fire Festival, an event that plans to take over the Chicago riverfront with a so-titled “Grand Spectacle”, a “Redmoon” theatrical production|event done in cooperation with the city with the waterway as center stage.  The Chicago River will be ablaze in fiery cauldrons, burning houses and fireworks as the city’s first-ever Great Chicago Fire Festival lights up the Loop.

For more details:
http://trib.in/1tkOLxE
http://chicagofirefestival.com/