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HP Historical Society Presentation

2024-02-22 19:00:00 2024-02-22 20:30:00 America/Chicago HP Historical Society Presentation Highland Park Public Library - Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Thursday, February 22
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-02-22 19:00:00 2024-02-22 20:30:00 America/Chicago HP Historical Society Presentation Join us in the Auditorium for Chicago's Deadliest Fire: The Iroquois Theater Disaster of December 30, 1903. Highland Park Public Library - Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Highland Park Public Library

Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Join us in the Auditorium for Chicago's Deadliest Fire: The Iroquois Theater Disaster of December 30, 1903.

Chicago’s Deadliest Fire: The Iroquois Theater Disaster of December 30, 1903
Presented by Jeff Stern & the Highland Park Historical Society.

More than residents of other American cities, Chicagoans learn early in life about the conflagration that destroyed most of the core and surrounding parts of the fast-growing city in October of 1871, leading to the establishment of Fire Prevention Week 51 years later, and commemorated in many parts of the country ever since. All but forgotten is the night of horror at the dawn of the 20th Century in the just-opened, lavish Iroquois Theater that brought ghastly deaths – in barely half an hour – to more that twice the number of those who perished in the fire of 1871. The 2003 book entitled Tinder Box, by Anthony P. Hatch, is the basis for this presentation.

Jeff Stern is a member of the Board of the Fire Museum of Greater Chicago. He has never been a Chicago firefighter, but has been involved with the Fire Department for over 75 years. Whether it was the early motorized equipment that was still in service when he was growing up or some other aspect of the fire service that attracted his interest, he’s not sure, but he managed to visit all 141 of the fire houses that were then in service before he turned 13, and was able to run with some of the busiest squads and chiefs.

Admission is free. For further information or a Zoom link, please contact the Highland Park Historical Society: 847.432.7090 or archives@highlandparkhistory.org. This is a hybrid program with live presentation at the Highland Park Public Library or via Zoom.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History |

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