The firestorm (not fire) may have only lasted four hours but when it completed four towns and more than 400 people were gone from the face of the earth.
It's also a tale of heroic firemen and railwaymen. It's a tale of greedy industrialists that created an ecological disaster that made Mother Nature strike back. Imagine a wall of fire four-and-a-half miles high coming roaring at you and you have the scenario of the tale. What makes this museum unique is the tale it tells.
The fire museum in Hinckley is in many ways typical of a lot of Midwest museums: Day to day rusting and fading artifacts stuffed in period rooms. O'Leary's cow supposedly kick over a lantern that resulted the two day Chicago fire.
Almost everyone knows about the Chicago fire: Mrs.
