The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Fire_of_1874" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chicago Fire of 1874">Chicago Fire of 1874</a> burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.<sup about="#mwt97" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_14#cite_note-16" id="mwhQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhg">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt94" class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFKeyes1997">Keyes, Jonathan J. (1997). "The Forgotten Fire". <i id="mwBWY">Chicago History</i>. <b id="mwBWc">26</b> (3). Chicago Historical Society.: 52–65.</cite><span about="#mwt94" class="Z3988" id="mwBWg" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Chicago+History&amp;rft.atitle=The+Forgotten+Fire&amp;rft.volume=26&amp;rft.issue=3&amp;rft.pages=52-65&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.aulast=Keyes&amp;rft.aufirst=Jonathan+J.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+14"></span></span>