He's now a historian at the Chicago African American Firefighters Museum. "Blacks came on the Fire Department December 21st, 1872. They were established by the mayor, Joseph Medill," Walcott said.

A Lincoln Park home that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 will hit the market this March with an asking price of $2.4 million. The home, located at 2121 North Hudson Street, ...

On this day in history, Oct. 8, 1871, a terrible fire broke out on the southwest side of Chicago, Illinois, killing 300 people and leaving a third of the city's population homeless.