On December 30, 1903 there occurred the worst disaster in theatre history, and the largest single building fire in American history, Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre Fire. The Iroquois had only been open for five weeks on the day of the disaster, and was full to capacity with over 2,100 audience members, most of them women and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:48AM on December 30, 2017