For my Chicago history project am researching about H.H. Holmes. H.H. Holmes was Americans first serial killer. He was married 3 times and had 2 kids he killed his first wife and his daughter. When H.H Homes killed woman he would sell their skeleton weeks later. It’s weird how he sold their skeletons but when he was a kid he was afraid of the doctors and they made him face the skeleton. Later on when he was older he went to a university for being a doctor. H.H Holmes killed 20-200 people in his “Murder Castle”. The reason why I picked H.H. holmes was because he sounded interesting to research nad also because I never heard of H.H. Holmes I never really though t about any serial killers untill now I think this is a very cool project to do.
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-
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