On October 8, 1871, flames sparked in the Chicago barn of
Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, igniting a two-day blaze that
killed between 200 and 300 people, destroys 17,450 buildings,
left 100,000 homeless and caused an estimated $200 million
(in 1871 dollars; more than $4 billion today) in damages.

Legend has it that a cow kicked over a lantern in the O’Leary
barn and started the fire, but other theories hold that humans
or even a comet may have been responsible for the event that
left four square miles of the Windy City, including its business
district, in ruins.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A Portland K9 officer has
been named one of the country’s most heroic dogs.

Jacky, a 6-year-old German shorthaired pointer, is a
semifinalist for an American Humane 2024 Hero Dog
Award in the “Law Enforcement and First Responder”
category.

Jacky and human Officer Charlie Berry are assigned to
TriMet’s Transit Police Division, where K9 Jacky helps
protect TriMet’s riders and employees, as well as the
wider Portland region, sniffing out potential danger.

Port of Portland announced Monday, K9 Jacky and
her handler Officer Berry have been selected to work
Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas on Feb. 11.

Port of Portland Police Officer Charlie Berry and her K9
Jacky. (Port of Portland)

For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park,
Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously
moving assembly line when the chassis, the automobile’s
frame is assembled using the revolutionary industrial
technique.          

Within a year, further assembly line improvements reduced   
productivity effected by Ford’s use of the moving assembly
line allowed him to drastically reduce the cost of the Model T.

Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was 
a luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan.

The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899,
and the last Packard’s were built in South Bend, Indiana,
in 1958.