Re:Why America's New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
by 8bitsrule on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:10PM
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Farther down, it mentions that the 1871 Chicago Fire resulted in a wood-construction ban "still partly in place".
Britannica notes that "The [1871] slums became kindling for the downtown conflagration, where even the supposedly fireproof stone and brick buildings exploded in flames as the destruction swept northward."
Britannica notes that "The [1871] slums became kindling for the downtown conflagration, where even the supposedly fireproof stone and brick buildings exploded in flames as the destruction swept northward."
https://www.britannica.com/event/Chicago-fire-of-1871