The Chicago Cipher

Chicago · 3 October 2026

The Great Chicago Fire started 155 years ago this Thursday. Ninety-eight years after that, a young man from Maywood stood up in front of a crowd and said what he thought you do about a fire.

Every letter below is standing in for another one. Tap a box, then tap the letter you think belongs there, and every box with that same code letter fills in at once. Two letters are on the house.

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