Great Chicago Fire of the lumber to rebuild Chicago. As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes that buried the town, and the town had to be abandoned. Great Chicago Fire The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The fire began in a neighborhood southwest of the city center. A long period of hot, dry, windy conditions, and the wooden construction prevalent in the
8th October Revolutionary Movement 8th October Revolutionary Movement The 8th October Revolutionary Movement (in Portuguese: "Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro") was formerly a Brazilian urban guerrilla group. During the military dictatorship in Brazil, MR8 was formed by Brazilian Communist Party members who disagreed with the party's decision not to take part in armed resistance against the military government, the so-called "Dissidência da Guanabara" (DI-GB). The name "Movimento Revolucionário 8 de Outubro" was taken from another organization, recently destroyed by police repression. Dictatorship propaganda boasted of police effectiveness in suppressing of "terrorists," so the DI-GB began using the same name to demoralize the regime. The