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Annotated Bibliography Primary Murphy, Jim. The Great Fire. New York: Scholastic, 1995. Print.

This book was written by a person that interviewed some of the people of the Chicago Fire of 1871, and wrote the interviews on paper. This was great source from a primary perspective so it helped us get a different look at what people thought of the fire.

White, Horace. Chicago Fire - 1871.Chicago Fire - 1871. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2013. <http://www.nationalcenter.org>. This was written by a Chicago Tribune writer about a day after the fire.He gave an insight on how people reacted to the fire, and how the city made a plan to rebuild with the new idea of fireproofing. This writer also gave his perspective on what happened, and also on how people escaped the great fire.

Secondary The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Rebuilding - National Geographic Education. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2013. <http://education.nationalgeographic.com>. This was a very useful article, as it was mainly focused on the rebuilding of Chicago, which helped us with our Turning Point tab on our website.

Chicago Fire of 1871. Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2013."Chicago Fire of 1871." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2013. This article gave us a lot of basic background information. This helped us to develope the history and background tab on our website as well.

Davis, Lee. Fires. Man-made Catastrophes. New York, NY: Facts on File, 2002. N. pag. Print. This article gave very detailed facts, that followed throughout every hour of destruction during the fire.

Fireproofing Techniques.World of Invention. Gale, 2006. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 4 Jan. 2013. This article helped us out tremendously with the tab Turning Point. This article gave us most of our facts for that tab, and also introduced us to the turning point of the Chicago Fire. We didnt find many articles that had information of fireproofing and the Chicago Fire so this was one of our more reliable sources.

Great Chicago Fire (1871).News, Photos and Video. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2013. <http://www.chicagotribune.com>. This website gave many basic, background facts to help us get a better understanding of the Great Chicago fire.

Guiberson, Brenda Z. "The Great Chicago Fire." Disasters: Natural and Man-made Catastrophes through the Centuries. New York: Henry Holt and, 2010. N. pag. Print. This book was very useful, and had many facts that other sources didnt. First, it had many more detailed facts, for example, if one book said many houses were made out of wood, this book would say Chicago had about 59,000 buildings and 2-3 of them were made out of wood. Also, we got time by time events that happened in the fire so we were able to get a better understanding of how bad the fire was.

How Weather Changes History: The Great Chicago Fire 1871. YouTube. YouTube, 30 Sept. 2011. Web. 21 Jan. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com> This video gave us a lot of information about the drought that was in Chicago while the fire happened. It also gave details on the possibility of the drought causing the Chicago Fire because there were so many fires involved with the drought. Mainly Secondary Information, but had some primary qoutes of eyewitnesses of the fire.

Morrow, Nancy. Disasters. American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Ed. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 325331. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 4 Jan. 2013. This book had many different points of view on different people and what the fire looked like from different areas. This book also gave us some quotes, and as i said before some interesting points of view.

Quaife, M. M. Chicago Fire. Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd Ed. Vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 133-134. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 4 Jan. 2013. This source was the source that we got our first information from. Also, this website helped us decide what our topic was going to be. This site had many interesting facts that confirmed that we would do the Chicago Fire.

Randall, Frank A., and John D. Randall. History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1999. Print. This book gave us some good facts under the tab Turning Point because it had many facts on how Chicago rebuilt itself with the technique of fireproofing. It also gave some good facts on the materials were used also.

Wood, Leigh Hope. Fires. New York: Twenty-First Century, 1994. Print.

This book also gave us many useful facts, but most of them went under the fire tab on our website. Some of them also went under the Impact Today information. additionally, we got one quote out of this but ended up not using it.

Woods, Michael, and Mary B. Woods. Fires. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 2007. Print. This book was very reliable and had a lot of information from The Chicago Tribune. Also, this book gave us many good facts that we used for our website. Additionally, this had many quotes, but some we ended up not using on our website.

Images Chicago Before the Fire. N.d. Photograph. TheMaveSite. Web. 21 Jan. 2013. <http://themavesite.com>. Helped show a compare and contrast before and after the great fire.

Chicago Fire 1871 Memorial. N.d. Photograph. The Great Chicago Fire & The Web Of Memory. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://greatchicagofire.org>. Showed how the people of Chicago honored and educated the citizens about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Chicago Fire Dept. Memorial. N.d. Photograph. Waymarking. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://www.waymarking.com>.

Showed how citizens honored the firemen that gave their lives just to try to protect the city of Chicago.

Chicago Fire Memorial-Boots. N.d. Photograph. CFD Football's Photostream. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http//:farm5.staticflicker.com>. Another example of how Chicago citizens honor the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Chicago Fire-1871. N.d. Photograph. Travelblog. Web. 14 Jan. 2013. <http://www.travelblog.org>. Helped us show the destruction and all that happened during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Chicago Southern Hotel. N.d. Photograph. Chuckman's Photos on Wordpress: Chicago Nostalgia and Memorabilia. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://chuckmanchicagonostalgia.wordpress.com>. This gave us an example of a building that Chicago used the new fireproof techniques.

Drought. N.d. Photograph. 123RF. Web. 6 Feb. 2013. <http://www.123rf.com/image> Helped us show one of the possible causes of the Chicago Fire.

Few Columns Standing. N.d. Photograph. Farwest.it. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://www.farwest.it.com>. Helped us show destruction after the 31 hour fire and all Chicago had to rebuild.

Fire Destruction with Trains. N.d. Photograph. The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory. Web. 17 Jan. 2013. <http://greatchicagofire.org>. This image helped us give a compare contrast, and also a cause and effect of before and after the fire.

Map of Burnt Chicago. N.d. Map. Lincoln Park. Web. 16 Jan. 2013. <http://students.depaul.edu>. Helped us show how much of Chicago the fire burnt.

Mrs.O'Leary's Cow. N.d. Photograph. Chicago. The Chicago Fire. Web. 6 Feb. 2013. <http://www.thchicagofire.com/cause.php> Also shows a possible cause of the Chicago Fire.

Sleeping Cause. N.d. Photograph. Chicago. The Chicago Fire of 1871. Web. 6 Feb. 2013. <http://www.thechicagofire.com/cause.php> This image yet again gave us a possible cause of the Chicago Fire of 1871.

The Marquette Building. N.d. Photograph. The Marquette Building. Web. 28 Jan. 2013. <http://images.google.com>. Gave us an image that we could use to show a building fully constructed with fireproofing materials.

Newspaper Headline. N.d. Photograph. Footnotables. 8 Oct. 2009. Web. 16 Jan. 2013. <http://www.footnoteables.blogspot.com>. Used this to show how the Chicago Fire went nationally, which was in the newspaper the next day.

O'Leary's Home. N.d. Photograph. Chicago. Did the Cow Do It? A New Look on The Chicago Fire. 12 May 2004. Web. 29 Jan. 2013. <http://www.thechicagofire.com>. Used to show people where the fire was most known to start the OLearys home.

Scattered Buildings. N.d. Photograph. Hidden Truth: The Chicago City Cemetery & Lincoln Park. Pamela Bannos. Web. 16 Jan. 2013. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com>. Also used to show destruction after the Chicago Fire of 1871, also what they needed to rebuild.

Street Burning. N.d. Photograph. THE Most FAMOUS, THE GREAT NAMES, Colleagues, Friends, Fellows, Congressional Members. Lisa Jackson. Web. <http://lisajackson-thegovernmentonline.blogspot.com> Used to show the burning of Chicago that later left a lot destruction after 31 hours.

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