Iroquois Theatre fire Iroquois Theatre fire The Iroquois Theatre fire happened on December 30, 1903, in Chicago, Illinois. It was the deadliest theater fire and the deadliest single-building fire in United States history. At least 602 people died as a result of the fire, but not all the deaths were reported, as some of the bodies were removed from the scene. The Iroquois Theatre was at 24–28 West Randolph Street, between State Street and Dearborn Street, in Chicago. The syndicate that bankrolled its construction chose the location specifically to attract women on day trips from out of town who, it was thought, would
Poles in Chicago singlehandedly painted New Gračanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois, over the span of three years. While large numbers of Jews from the former lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth immigrated to the Chicago area, they faced a historical trajectory far different from that of their Christian counterparts. In the process of Americanization, many Polish Jews in Chicago would lose their identification with their native land, with notable exceptions. There have also been small numbers of Muslims, mostly Lipka Tatars originating from the Białystok region. Chicago bills itself as the largest Polish city outside of Poland with approximately 1,100,000 people of Polish