CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or ... It of course became known as the Great Chicago Fire. Firsthand accounts of the fire were colorful and horrific.

As California battles the massive Palisades Fire, its sheer size puts the historic Great Chicago Fire of 1871 into ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...

State Farm Insurance is not the bad guy for canceling policies before the LA fires. If anyone is to blame for that, it's ...

The most devastating wildfire in Los Angeles history continues to burn, evoking comparisons to The Great Chicago Fire that ...

The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...

Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting.

As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...

Historians say it’s an impossible question to answer. Major events have shaped Chicago from its very start in 1837, but one ...