Once there was a little girl who loved flowers. One day she was walking to where all the flower were. She walked up the hill and there was no flowers she seen a man picking the flowers up. She went there and ask the man what he was doing he said am taking the flower so that the people over there he pointed at these man who where wearing yellow and orange vest. What are they doing here she ask there here so they could make houses for people who need them she was not happy but at the same time she was happy that people could live in houses. She went back to her house and said to her mom can u give me $15 so that I could plant flower her mom said yes. Then she went to the store and bought flowers. She found this place close to where they where building the houses. She sat down and started planting in 1 hour she as done about 2 weeks later they where planted.
The Great Chicago fire happen on October 8, 1871 and lasted till October 10, 1871. On the day the fire started it was windy and since the whole city was made out of wood that made the fire go wild even more. There were so many building that burned there was about 17,500 building that burned down. The building that did survive the Great Chicago fire was st. Michael's Church, Chicago Water Tower, St. Ignatius College, and the Holly Family Church. As many as 300 people died from the Great Chicago fire and left over 100,000 people homeless. People that survived the fire had to jump into Lake Michigan. Sources: https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-started-the-great-chicago-fire http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2013/10/08/the-great-chicago-
This is a wonderful story! I bet those people were happy to have beautiful flowers to look at in their new homes. Thank you for sharing this week.
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