Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
    Unavailable
    Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
    Unavailable
    Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
    Ebook224 pages2 hours

    Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle

    By John F Hogan and Alex A. Burkholder

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    Wade into the endless smoke of Chicago's Union Stock Yards, the site of nearly three hundred extra-alarm fires before its closure in 1971, including some of the most disastrous conflagrations of a city famous for fire. In 1910, twenty-one firemen and three civilians were killed in a blaze at a beef warehouse--the largest death toll for an organized fire department in the nation prior to 9/11. The meatpackers who ran the yards considered the constant threat of fire as part of the cost of doing business, shrugging it off with an, "It's all right, we're fully covered." For the firefighters who were forced to plunge into the flames again and again, it was an entirely different matter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe History Press
    Release dateFeb 12, 2013
    ISBN9781614238621
    Unavailable
    Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards: A History of Flame and Folly in the Jungle
    Author

    John F Hogan

    Chicago native John F. Hogan is a published historian and former broadcast journalist and on-air reporter (WGN-TV/Radio) who has written and produced newscasts and documentaries specializing in politics, government, the courts and the environment. As WGN-TV's environmental editor, he became the first recipient of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Quality Award. His work also has been honored by the Associated Press. Hogan left broadcasting to become director of media relations and employee communications for Commonwealth Edison Company, one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Hogan is the author of Edison's one-hundred-year history, A Spirit Capable, as well as five other Chicago books with The History Press: Chicago Shakedown, Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards, Forgotten Fires of Chicago, The 1937 Chicago Steel Strike and The Great Chicago Beer Riot. He holds a BS in journalism/communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and presently works as a freelance writer and public relations consultant.

    Read more from John F Hogan

    Related to Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

    Related ebooks

    United States History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Letters

      Dec 14, 2021

      Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Wheatfield Casualty

      Aug 24, 2021

      Wheatfield Casualty
      7 min read

    • Article

      Murder in Hope Falls

      Mar 31, 2022

      Murder in Hope Falls
      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      May 31, 2022

      Thank you for Julie Peakman’s article about children’s fiction in the May issue. Knowing what books our ancestors read as children can be helpful in unexpected ways. It was a mystery why my grandmother (born 1899) had the nickname Tom. Her sister, Ru

      5 min read

    • Article

      Your LETTERS

      Jul 9, 2021

      Your LETTERS
      13 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 21, 2021

      I’m looking forward to reading Robert Harris’s latest book, V2, which was highlighted in your December issue (Fact to Fiction). My late father was a London fireman from 1939 to 1944. He survived the worst of the Blitz and witnessed some horrific cata

      4 min read

    • Article

      HOT SPRINGS & YOSEMITE

      Mar 24, 2020

      HOT SPRINGS & YOSEMITE
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jun 3, 2020

      When I saw your article on a meteorite strike in Clark Co. I hoped that it would confirm a story my father told of his childhood. Unfortunately, the dates do not match. Sometime between 1928 and 1935, my father and his family were sitting on their fa

      2 min read

    • Article

      Coot Hill

      Aug 10, 2023

      Coot Hill
      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Mar 14, 2024

      I wanted to write in to say how moved I was by Hannah Skoda’s article on the history of breastfeeding (An Act of Love, February). I became a mum myself quite recently, and wasn’t ready for how breastfeeding can feel lonely, frustrating, beautiful and

      4 min read

    • Article

      International Books

      Jan 13, 2020

      Imagining the world in the first century AD (not yet called that), it’s difficult to envision Christianity (not yet called that) when it was considered a “blasphemous cult”. It’s 35AD in Jerusalem and Saul, a Jew, is hunting down Christians for execu

      5 min read

    • Article

      Trapped Between Two Worlds: The Life of John Morris

      Apr 4, 2022

      There is a (now lost) picture of me as an infant in 1952 on my grandfather’s knee, when he was about to turn 90. Even as a teenager, I was thinking, wow, the life this guy lived. The things he lived through and witnessed, and the way his day-to-day l

      11 min read

    • Article

      Commentary: Fifty-five Summers Have Gone By Since The Watts Rebellion. How Far Have We Traveled?

      Jul 28, 2020

      In the summer of 1965, my birthday cake was stuck at a bakery across town. My mother couldn't get to it because Watts was on fire, which sent surrounding cities, like ours in the South Bay, into lockdown. No way could she have known when she placed t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Death Without Ceremony

      May 5, 2020

      Death Without Ceremony
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      May 13, 2021

      I enjoyed your article about the Festival of Britain (May) and was inspired to do an online search into the whereabouts of the artworks once the festival closed. I was surprised to discover that the vast majority of these historic artefacts were dest

      4 min read

    • Article

      Projections of Life

      Jun 1, 2023

      Projections of Life
      14 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Feb 11, 2020

      Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Sep 22, 2020

      Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      Marketing Lincoln

      Apr 6, 2021

      Marketing Lincoln
      5 min read

    • Article

      Your LETTERS

      Jan 14, 2022

      Your LETTERS
      10 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Nov 13, 2020

      This month we start with a genealogical challenge from Family Tree contributor Adele Emm. Adele’s grandma, who was born in 1898, began working in the weaving sheds when she was 12 and here, she met another lady who was to become a lifelong friend. Th

      8 min read

    • Article

      Married To The Mllb

      Sep 17, 2021

      Married To The Mllb
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jun 2, 2020

      Letters
      6 min read

    • Article

      State Of The State 200

      Jul 27, 2021

      State Of The State 200
      21 min read

    Reviews for Fire Strikes the Chicago Stock Yards

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words