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TIL the Great Chicago Fire wasn’t even the deadliest fire in the midwest the day it happened. The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin burned 1.2 million acres and killed anywhere from 1500 to 2500 people, five times as many as the Great Chicago Fire.

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