History of Chicago and south branches of the Chicago River, which flows through the city's downtown. The three white stripes represent the North, West and South sides of the city, Lake Michigan being the east side. The most famous and serious disaster was the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. On December 30, 1903 the "absolutely fireproof", five-week-old Iroquois Theater was engulfed by fire. The fire lasted less than thirty minutes; 602 people died as a result of being burned, asphyxiated, or trampled. The S.S. "Eastland" was a cruise ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24 July 1915—a calm, sunny day—the
Shouting fire in a crowded theater government's recruitment efforts for the war. Holmes wrote: The First Amendment holding in "Schenck" was later partially overturned by "Brandenburg v. Ohio" in 1969, which limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot). The test in "Brandenburg" is the current Supreme Court jurisprudence on the ability of government to proscribe speech after that fact. Despite "Schenck" being limited, the phrase "shouting "fire" in a crowded theater" has since come to be known as synonymous with an action that the speaker believes goes beyond the rights