Great Chicago Fire

Quality:

Great Chicago Fire - 1871 conflagration in Chicago, Illinois. Article “Great Chicago Fire” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Great Chicago Fire”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1750 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 23 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1981 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #301 in August 2014
• Global: #6061 in January 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4319 in August 2016
• Global: #9850 in October 2025

There are 35 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Great Chicago Fire		89.2724
2	Norwegian (no) Brannen i Chicago 1871		79.7551
3	French (fr) Grand incendie de Chicago		69.8844
4	Serbian (sr) Велики пожар у Чикагу		61.7251
5	Vietnamese (vi) Đại hỏa hoạn Chicago		49.0992
6	Chinese (zh) 芝加哥大火		47.4691
7	Simple English (simple) Great Chicago Fire		42.7293
8	Hebrew (he) השרפה הגדולה של שיקגו		37.2758
9	Tamil (ta) சிகாகோ பெருந்தீ		37.0189
10	German (de) Großer Brand von Chicago		36.1016

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Chicago Fire		7 916 753
2	Spanish (es) Gran incendio de Chicago		402 430
3	Russian (ru) Великий чикагский пожар		401 294
4	German (de) Großer Brand von Chicago		262 706
5	French (fr) Grand incendie de Chicago		253 104
6	Japanese (ja) シカゴ大火		170 344
7	Italian (it) Grande incendio di Chicago		149 527
8	Portuguese (pt) Grande incêndio de Chicago		132 396
9	Polish (pl) Wielki pożar Chicago		119 081
10	Chinese (zh) 芝加哥大火		102 108

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Great Chicago Fire		31 470
2	Polish (pl) Wielki pożar Chicago		2 062
3	Spanish (es) Gran incendio de Chicago		1 375
4	German (de) Großer Brand von Chicago		1 336
5	Russian (ru) Великий чикагский пожар		990
6	French (fr) Grand incendie de Chicago		901
7	Portuguese (pt) Grande incêndio de Chicago		700
8	Japanese (ja) シカゴ大火		500
9	Italian (it) Grande incendio di Chicago		494
10	Chinese (zh) 芝加哥大火		486

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Chicago Fire		1 021
2	German (de) Großer Brand von Chicago		96
3	French (fr) Grand incendie de Chicago		93
4	Russian (ru) Великий чикагский пожар		77
5	Italian (it) Grande incendio di Chicago		45
6	Danish (da) Den store brand i Chicago		36
7	Spanish (es) Gran incendio de Chicago		35
8	Hebrew (he) השרפה הגדולה של שיקגו		35
9	Japanese (ja) シカゴ大火		35
10	Dutch (nl) Grote brand van Chicago		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Great Chicago Fire		4
2	Serbian (sr) Велики пожар у Чикагу		3
3	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Veliki požar u Chicagu		2
4	Catalan (ca) Gran incendi de Chicago		1
5	German (de) Großer Brand von Chicago		1
6	Basque (eu) Chicagoko Sute Handia		1
7	Arabic (ar) حريق شيكاغو العظيم		0
8	Belarusian (be) Вялікі чыкагскі пажар		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Голям пожар в Чикаго (1871)		0
10	Czech (cs) Velký požár v Chicagu		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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