April 13, 2026
Tag: 1903
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The Iroquois Theatre Fire
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Chicago, December 30, 1903. Fire, smoke and chaos caused by fear, killed over six hundred soles today at the new Iroquois Theatre on Randolph Street. That’s the way the lead story in the Chicago Sun-Times began on the morning of December 31, 1903. A grusome story of death and suffering that need not have happened.
Past Article
August 10, 2020 2 Comments
When I started this series, the unknown was the only common factor applied to the list of artists I pre-selected. A perfect example is a story I found about Beach Haven, New Jersey, newspaper man and sketch artist, Bill Kane. It seems that one day in 1976, Bill who was lovingly called “Citizen Kane” decided […]