Episode 322 - Great Chicago Fire, The - The Ogden Mansion, The Barracks, and the Newberry Library

On this Great Chicago Fire-themed episode we discuss one home not destroyed by the fire – the Ogden mansion – and learn little more about the person who once owned it, what happened to that area immediately after the fire, and what is on that site now.

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