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"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" from episode #0136 "Where There's Smoke"

"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" from episode #0136 "Where There's Smoke"

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On this day in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire swept through the
city after starting, from unknown causes, the previous evening.
The fire, and subsequent rebuild, shaped the city that exists
today. But the new city had no room for many poorer
Chicagoans. 

Residents of San Francisco's Chinatown faced similar economic and
political pressure as their own city recovered from the 1906
earthquake and resulting fires. But the city's Chinese community
fought back, building a new, thriving Chinatown from the
ashes. 

Image: An artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire, Chicago
in Flames -- The Rush for Lives Over Randolph Street Bridge.
Originally from Harper's Weekly, 1871.

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