Great Chicago Fire

The fires of 1871 wiped out city after city after city in America.

We think of the Great Chicago Fire and that thing about the cow kicking over a lantern.

That didn't happen.

The Great Chicago Fire, what is never mentioned...

The Great Fire happened in many other cities through the Midwest, through, frankly, mysterious circumstances.

But Chicago was not alone.

The fires of 1871 wiped out city after city after city in America.

We think of the Great Chicago Fire and that thing about the cow kicking over a lantern.

That didn't happen.

The Great Chicago Fire, what is never mentioned...

The Great Fire happened in many other cities through the Midwest through, frankly, mysterious circumstances.

But Chicago was not alone.

The fires of 1871 wiped out city after city after city in America.

We think of the Great Chicago Fire and that thing about the cow kicking over a lantern.

That didn't happen.

The Great Chicago Fire, what is never mentioned...

The Great Fire happened in many other cities through the Midwest through, frankly, mysterious circumstances.

But Chicago was not alone.

The Latter-day Saints later made it scripture as part of the Pearl of Great Price.

People thought it had been burned in 1871 in the Chicago fire.

In 1966, fragments turned up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The main problems critics raised, the text doesn't match.

anywhere, and especially not in 24 months, where the actual construction only took about 12 months of active building.

By the early 1900s, Chicago had already enacted strict building codes and permit laws after the Great Fire of 1871.

Major construction projects, especially civic or publicly funded buildings, They required stamped architectural and structural plans, all submitted to the city of Chicago's building department, all for approval.

These plans, they were to be kept permanently in the city's engineering archives.

Doesn't exist.

Most likely destroyed in the Chicago fire.

And it was the long scroll that went all the way from the parlor of the Nauvoo house into the other room and It's a very well-attested aspect of church history that, frankly, because of persecution from without, not necessarily negligence from within, we don't have and can't verify.

Unfortunately, Joseph Smith could not say everything he wanted to say because his life was snuffed out and the saints were driven west myriad times.