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Seeing With Their Investments, Minds, And Hearts: Relief After The Great Chicago Fire Of 1871 And The Lessons We Can Learn From It, Ann Hugo

Undergraduate Student Scholarship – History

This paper compares the impact of various relief efforts in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire, comparing the effect Christian organizations had on the relief effort to government and business assistance. All of these methods of assistance were useful and none should be excluded or demeaned.