October 27, 2025

Scores of Chicago property records burned in the Great Fire of 1871. Their destruction — and re-creation — might hold lessons for the future.

  • NABJ Black News & Views

As Chicago rebuilt from the Great Fire of 1871, the city and state found ways to reestablish official property deeds destroyed by the flames.

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