Discover key events on October 8 including the Great Chicago Fire, Soviet satellite transmission, and worldwide ...

As always, your local firefighters care about your safety and want to make sure that you and your family are safe from the ...

On this day in 1871, a fire that began in a small barn tore through Chicago, killing 300 people, leaving 100,000 homeless, ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - A spark in a barn ignited one of the biggest fire disasters in American history on Oct. 8, 1871. The two ...

In recent years, large wildfires have laid waste to towns in the West. But two late 19th-century fires in the upper Midwest ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

1949: Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino, aka “Tokyo Rose,” whose family lived in Chicago, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. She was convicted on one count of treason for broadcasting ...