Cities: Chicago IL

Mundane : None | Plane crash 25 May 1979 (Killed 272 aboard and 3 on the ground) | Mundane : None | Conflagration 8 October 1871 ("Chicago Fire" killed 250, destroyed 17,450 buildings, $196 million damage) | Mundane : None | Fire, major 30 December 1903 (602 killed in Iroquois Theater fire) | Mundane : None | Train accident 30 October 1972 (45 killed & over 200 injured when 2 cummuter trains collided) | Mundane : None | Heat wave (peak) 14 July 1995 (560 died in Chicago in record heat wave) | Mundane : City Population | more than 500,000 population