Opinion | What Los Angeles Can Learn From Chicago’s Great Fire (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/los-angeles-fires-la-wildfires-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.8FHl.xpC3FZCWMHUZ&smid=re-nytopinion
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Opinion | What Los Angeles Can Learn From Chicago’s Great Fire (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/los-angeles-fires-la-wildfires-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.8FHl.xpC3FZCWMHUZ&smid=re-nytopinion
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As Los Angeles continues to battle its horrendous fires, Chicago’s remarkable renewal after its own legendary disaster offers reassurance and lessons for how the nation’s second-largest city can recover, the author Carl Smith writes in a guest essay.
“It is encouraging to remember that pressure from the insurance market was precisely what drove Chicago’s renewal. This disaster must spur Los Angeles to find better ways to rebuild entire neighborhoods, not just individual structures, so that the city is less vulnerable in the long term,” Carl adds.
Read the full essay [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/opinion/los-angeles-fires-la-wildfires-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sE4.8FHl.xpC3FZCWMHUZ&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.
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