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It’s fire season in the U.S. of A. so Corrigan tells Marko about one of the most famous fires in U.S. history: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Highlights:
[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the Great Chicago Fire
[37:08] Mark broke his face
[46:00] We’re definitely getting tattoos and you should get on our Discord if you’d like to come visit us in September!
[51:25] Corrigan convinces Marko he’ll like a sport
[62:08] What we watched! (Ghoulies, Ghoulies 2, Starship Troopers, The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad), Monster Mash, The Running Man, Hackers, Deadpool and Wolverine
[90:00] Mark has questions about Project 2025
Stuff we referenced:
- What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire? | Smithsonian
- The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the ‘Great Rebuilding’
- What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire? | The New Yorker
- Chicago’s Great Fire, 150 Years Later | Smithsonian
- Chicago on Fire | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
- The Great Chicago Fire | The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory
- The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It – Chicago Magazine
- The Great Chicago Fire | Chicago Stories | WTTW Chicago
- Featured Document Display: 150 Years Ago: The Great Chicago Fire | National Archives Museum
- An eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History