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Excerpt from History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West With a History of the Rise and Progress of Chicago, the Young Giant, to Which Is Appended a Record of the Great Fires in the Past Chicago is great in its ruins and hopeful in its prostra tion. The record of its herculean energy and manly hero ism, and the outlook for its future, must animate and encourage the world, now smitten in every part by our misfortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.