(ILLINOIS) The Chicago Evening Mail

Sale 2273 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 720

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

"CHICAGO DESTROYED. MOST APPALLING CALAMITY ON RECORD." (ILLINOIS.) The Chicago Evening Mail. Broadsheet, 2 pages, 18 x 11 1/2 inches; moderate wear and soiling with slight loss of text along folds. Chicago, 11 October 1871

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The Evening Mail was the first daily newspaper to resume after the fire, after relocating to what was billed as "the only job printing office in the sotth [sic] side not burned." They also asked their subscribers to "bear with our small size and indifferent appearance until we can do better." This issue reports on a wide variety of emergency services--medical, water, and an "intelligence office for the lost." Extortionate pricing of bread has been forbidden and a militia unit is on the way. The paper also reports on the even deadlier fires along Green Bay in Wisconsin, which are not nearly as well-remembered today.