In Popular Culture
- The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. Earlier, another Chicago Fire team had played in the short-lived World Football League for one year under the same name. Another Chicago Fire played in the American Football Association.
- The University of Illinois at Chicago athletic teams are nicknamed the Flames, in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire.
- Although set in Philadelphia, Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier portrays the nationwide impact the 1871 Chicago fire had on the stock markets and the financial world.
- The 1937 film In Old Chicago, is centered on the fire, with a highly fictionalized portrayal of the O'Leary family as the main characters.
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