Skyscrapers and all that jazz
Holy cow! Legend has it that the great fire of 1871 was started by a cow. She supposedly kicked over a stool on which a lantern stood, starting a fire in her barn which quickly spread, ultimately burning down about three square miles of the city of Chicago. The city had to be almost entirely rebuilt after the fire, and it is here that some of the world’s first skyscrapers soared skyward. Unlike cows, we birds can be proud of…