Great Chicago Fire of sidewalk, 2,000 lampposts, 17,500 buildings, and $222 million in property, which was about a third of the city's valuation in 1871. The value of the property destroyed by the fire is equivalent to $ billion in . Of the 300,000 inhabitants of Chicago in 1871, 100,000 were left homeless, one-third of the population. 120 bodies were recovered, but the death toll may have been as high as 300. The county coroner speculated that an accurate count was impossible, as some victims may have drowned or had been incinerated, leaving no remains. In the days and weeks following the fire,
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension too many master shots and two-shots that left little for the editor to work with. "Wired Magazine", in 2009, celebrated "the 25th anniversary of the release of a film near and dear to many geeks who came of age in the '80s. "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension" was a great, adventurous, geeky movie, with enough silly science fiction and great characters to fill any three lousy summer blockbusters these days ... and it gave us so many great, geeky lines to quote." Cosford, in his 1984 review: "I suspect that Buckaroo's odd musings, particularly the one