1800s Fires or Explosions? - My Lunch Break

My Lunch Break exposes how “great fire” stories worldwide—especially Chicago’s—don’t add up. The 1871 Chicago Fire’s tipped-lantern tale can’t explain stone buildings reduced to rubble, pointing instead to coordinated demolitions. The Palmer House was supposedly built, destroyed, and rebuilt into a palace in under four years, then replaced again after just 45 years—mirroring the fate of the city’s castles, mansions, and courthouses. The pattern: false build dates, impossible timelines, and the same figures tied to wiping out advanced Old World structures to rewrite history.

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