Chicago Fire of 1874 Sides. The fire insurance industry's National Board of Underwriters responded to the fire by demanding widespread changes in Chicago's fire prevention and firefighting efforts, and ultimately encouraged fire insurers to cancel all coverage of buildings in the city in October. Many insurers did halt their activities in Chicago, and only returned to issuing policies in the city after the municipal government adopted many of the suggested reforms. In the immediate aftermath of the fire, there were some attempts to give the event a nickname to correspond with the much larger "Great Chicago Fire" of 1871. On July 17, three days
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