People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1893 — Chicago, the Fair and the Fire. [ARTICLE]

Chicago, the Fair and the Fire.

One of the most remarkable facts noticable among the great influx of visitors to the Fair is their keen interest in the great city, her past history and present wonderful growth, and the marvelous rebuilding that has taken place since Chicago was swept away by the flames of the fire of 1871. This is nowhere more manifest than at theCyclorama of the CHICAGO FIRE, Michigan Avenue and Madison Street, where the beautiful effects that the artists have secured in painting the great conflagration are like nothing ever yet shown in cycloramic work — the burning embers, hurled through the air by the hurricane that was blowing on that memorable October day, the toppling walls, portions of which are shown in mid air, blown there by an explosion of giant powder, clouds of ruddy hue, tinted by the flames, the shadows of which are dancing on the doomed buildings—all so realistic as to be startling in their effect, and one can almost imagine the work of destruction to be at the moment going on. The visitor to Chicago will find this one cf the most interesting exhibitions in the city.