SYSK Selects: Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: SYSK Selects: Did a cow start the Great Chicago Fire?
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:32:15
• Published: 2017-10-07 15:47

In this week's SYSK Select episode, Josh and Chuck find who's probably to blame for the Great Chicago Fire. The newspapers of the day reported that a cow (or perhaps its owner) was responsible for a fire that burned half of Chicago in 1871. Yet in 1997 Mrs. O'Leary and her cow were exonerated.