Editing Great Chicago Fire (section)

==Related events==
{{further information|Great Fires of 1871}}
On that hot, dry, and windy autumn day, three other major fires occurred along the shores of [[Lake Michigan]] at the same time as the Great Chicago Fire. Some {{convert|250|mi|km}} to the north, the [[Peshtigo Fire]] consumed the town of [[Peshtigo, Wisconsin]], along with a dozen other villages. It killed 1,200 to 2,500 people and charred approximately {{convert|1.5|e6acre|km2|abbr=unit}}. The Peshtigo Fire remains the deadliest in American history<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/10/the-night-america-burned-the-deadliest-and-most-overlooked-fire-in-u-s-history/ |title='The night America burned': The deadliest – and most overlooked – fire in U.S. history |last=Rosenwald |first=Michael S.| date=December 6, 2017 |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=February 23, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> but the remoteness of the region meant it was little noticed at the time, because one of the first things that burned were the telegraph lines to Green Bay.<ref name="sun">{{cite web |last=Tasker |first=G. |title=Worst fire largely unknown |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=October 10, 2003 |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2003/10/10/worst-fire-largely-unknown/ |access-date=October 9, 2013}}</ref>

Across the lake to the east, the town of [[Holland, Michigan]], and other nearby areas burned to the ground.<ref name=Wilkins2012>{{cite web |last=Wilkins |first=A. |title=October 8, 1871: The Night America Burned |work=[[io9]] |publisher=[[Gawker Media]] |date=March 29, 2012 |url=http://io9.com/5897629/october-8-1871-the-night-america-burned |access-date=October 9, 2013}}</ref> Some {{convert|100|mi|km}} to the north of Holland, the lumbering community of [[Manistee, Michigan|Manistee]] also went up in flames<ref name="Co1882">{{cite book |title=History of Manistee, Mason and Oceana counties, Michigan |chapter=The Great Fire of 1871 |chapter-url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mimanist/ManHist14.html |year=1882 |place=Chicago |publisher=H. R. Page & Co.}}</ref> in what became known as the [[Great Michigan Fire]].<ref name = Wilkins2012/>

Farther east, along the shore of [[Lake Huron]], the [[Port Huron Fire of 1871|Port Huron Fire]] swept through [[Port Huron, Michigan]] and much of [[Michigan]]'s [[The Thumb|"Thumb"]]. On October 9, 1871, a fire swept through the city of [[Urbana, Illinois]], {{convert|140|mi|km}} south of Chicago, destroying portions of its downtown area.<ref>{{cite web |title=History Of The Urbana Fire Department |publisher=Urbana Firefighters Local 1147 |date=March 7, 2008 |url=http://www.iafflocal1147.org/?zone=/unionactive/view_article.cfm&HomeID=74831&page=About20Us |access-date=November 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425154714/http://www.iafflocal1147.org/?zone=%2Funionactive%2Fview_article.cfm&HomeID=74831&page=About20Us |archive-date=April 25, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> [[Windsor, Ontario]], likewise burned on October 12.<ref name="Timeline">{{cite web |title=The Timeline: Fire of 1871 |work=Settling Canada's South: How Windsor Was Made |publisher=[[Windsor Public Library]] |year=2002 |url=http://209.202.75.197/digi/chi/timeline.asp?Lang=english |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026073802/http://209.202.75.197/digi/chi/drawpage.asp?RelationID=fire |archive-date=October 26, 2007 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 14, 2008}}</ref>

The city of [[Singapore, Michigan]], provided a large portion of the lumber to rebuild Chicago. As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes that buried the town, and the town had to be abandoned.<ref>{{cite book |last=Royce |first=Julie Albrecht |year=2007 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMLjOnGC_pAC&pg=PA58 |title=Traveling Michigan's Sunset Coast |pages=58–59 |publisher=Dog Ear Publishing |isbn=978-1598583212 |access-date=May 3, 2014}}</ref>