This is a bibliography of resources used to write the summaries provided for each fire.
Burlington Office Building Fire
- “10,000,000 Flames!” Chicago Daily Tribune (March 15, 1922).
- Chicago Board of Underwriters. Report of Chicago Fire of March 15, 1922, Embracing C. B. & Q. R. R. CO. Office Building, Atlantic and Austin (Springer) Buildings and Others. Chicago: Chicago Board of Underwriters, 1922.
- Hogan, John F., and Alex A. Burkholder. Forgotten Fires of Chicago: the Lake Michigan Inferno and a Century of Flame. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2014.
Chatsworth Train Wreck
- Buford, Cary Clive. The Chatsworth Wreck: a Saga of Excursion Train Travel in the American Midwest in the 1880s. Fairbury, Ill.: Blade Pub. Co., 1949.
- El Paso Story: The Centennial Book of El Paso, Illinois. sponsored by the El Paso Library Board, 1954
- Fliege, Stu. Tales and Trails of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Cherry Mine Disaster
- Tintori, Karen. Trapped: the 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster. New York: Atria Books, 2002.
- http://guitarjourney.tripod.com/cherrycoalminedisaster/.
Cook County Administration Building Fire
- Ciokajlo, Mickey, and Sabrina L. Miller. “6 die in Loop blaze.” Chicago Tribune (October 18, 2003).
Crescent City Train Derailment
- Hill, Irma M. Crescent City Remembers: Father's Day, June 21, 1970. Crescent City, Ill.: Scheiwe's Print Shop, [1995].
Great Chicago Fire
- Bales, Richard F. The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2002.
- Cromie, Robert. The Great Chicago Fire. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994.
- http://www.chicagohs.org/FIRE
Illinois Bell Telephone Fire
- Fire Investigation Report: Telephone Central Office, Hinsdale, Illinois, May 8, 1988. Prepared by Michael S. Isner, Fire Protection Engineer, Fire Investigations Division, National Fire Protection Association.
Iroquois Theater Fire
- Brandt, Nat. Chicago Death Trap: the Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.
- Everett, Marshall. Chicago’s Awful Theater Horror. [s. l.]: Memorial Pub. Co., 1904.
- Hatch, Anthony P. Tinderbox: the Iroquois Theater Disaster, 1903. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2003.
LaSalle Bank Fire
- “Chicago high-rise fire injures 37.” CNN.com (Dec. 7, 2004).
- “Fire Sprinkler Group Says LaSalle Bank Fire is a Wake Up Call for Chicago Building Committee to Immediately Pass High-Rise Sprinkler Ordinance.” PR Newswire US (Dec. 7, 2004).
- “Fire strikes Loop office skyscraper.” Chicago Tribune (Dec. 7, 2004).
- Lannan, Maura Kelly. “Three dozen injured, mostly firefighters, in Chicago, Illinois Skyscraper Fire.” Associated Press (Dec. 7, 2004).
- St. Clair, Stacy. “Lessons learned, practice, communication skills learned after last year’s fatal Loop fire helped victims save themselves” Chicago Daily Herald (Dec. 8, 2004)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Riots
- Chicago Sun-Times (April 6, 1968)
- Chicago Sun-Times (April 7, 1968)
- Cowan, David. Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes that shaped a city. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.
- “Many Stores Looted; Firemen Face Snipers” Chicago Tribune (April 6, 1968).
McCormick Place Fire
- Cowan, David. Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes that shaped a city. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.
- Illinois Inspection and Rating Bureau. Report of Investigation of the McCormick Place Fire of January 16, 1967. Chicago: Illinois Inspection and Rating Bureau, 1967.
Our Lady of the Angels School Fire
- Cowan, David and John Kuenster. To Sleep with the Angels: the Story of a Fire. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1996.
- Grosshandler, William Lytle, et al. Report of the Technical Investigation of the Station Nightclub Fire, Volume II, 2005. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, 2005.
- Lacey, Brett and Paul Valentine. Fire Prevention Applications. Oklahoma City: Fire Protection Publications, 2005.
- Santangelo, Mike, et al. The Greatest Firefighter Stories Never Told. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002.
- http://www.olafire.com/
St. Anthony's Hospital Fire
- Chicago Daily Sun-Times. April 6-8, 1949.
- Chicago Daily Tribune. April 6, 1949.
- Lyons, Paul Robert. Fire in America! Boston: National Fire Protection Association, 1976.
- TIME (magazine). April 18, 1949.
- http://www.effinghamil.com/government/fire_dept/history.htm
- http://www.stanthonyshospital.org/
Union Oil Company Refinery Fire
- Davidson, Jean, and Henry Wood. “Oil tank blasts kill 6.” Chicago Tribune (July 24, 1984).
- Ornberg, Richard. “A Preliminary Report of the Deadly Explosion that Caused $500 Million in Damage.” Firehouse (October 1984): 74-76, 176.
- Reardon, Patrick, and George Papajohn. “Death roars into refinery on ‘ball of fire.’” Chicago Tribune (July 25, 1984).
- Reardon, Patrick, and George Papajohn. “Refinery blasts blamed on tower crack.” Chicago Tribune (July 27, 1984).
Union Stockyards Fire
- Cowan, David. Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes that shaped a city. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.
- “Death of Horan to Bring Reform of Water System?” Chicago Daily Tribune (Dec. 23, 1910)
World's Colombian Exposition Fire
- Appelbaum, Stanley. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: a photographic record, photos from the collections of the Avery Library of Columbia University and the Chicago Historical Society. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.
- Chicago Daily Tribune. July 11, 1893.
- Cowan, David. Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes that shaped a city. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2001.
- Hashagen, Paul. “Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.” Firehouse. July 1993, p. 71-73.
- Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. New York: Crown Publishers, 2003.
