"The Great Fires of 1871 - The summer of 1871 was dreadfully hot and dry in the Michigan Thumb. Farmers watched their crops wither in the dry heat.
In the fall, relief from the drought was no better.
Folks began to worry that there were to be some lean winter months ahead. The heat and the lack of rain did not only affect eastern Michigan.
The conditions stretched west into #Peshtico #Wisconsin and northern #Illinois including #Chicago.
The whole region was a tinderbox for the great fire of 1871."
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