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The story took hold, and was circulated widely. An official commission investigating the fire heard testimony about Mrs. O'Leary and her cow in November O'Leary's Cow. In her account, she and her husband had been asleep when two men came to their house to alert them that their barn was on fire. O'Leary's husband, Patrick, was also questioned. He testified that he did not know how the fire started as he had also been asleep until he heard the neighbors.
The commission concluded in its official report that Mrs. O'Leary had not been in the barn when the fire began. The report did not state a precise cause of the fire, but mentioned that a spark blown from a chimney of a nearby house on that windy night could have started the fire in the barn.
Despite being cleared in the official report, the O'Leary family became notorious. In a quirk of fate, their house has actually survived the fire, as the flames spread outward away from property. Yet, facing the stigma of the constant rumors, which had spread nationwide, they eventually moved from De Koven Street.
O'Leary lived out the rest of her life as a virtual recluse, only leaving her residence to attend daily mass. When she died in she was described as "heartbroken" that she was always blamed for causing so much destruction. Years after Mrs. O'Leary's death, Michael Ahern, the newspaper reporter who had first published the rumor, admitted that he and other reporters had made up the story. They believed it would hype the story, as if a fire that destroyed a major American city needed any extra sensationalism.
When Ahern died in , a small item from the Associated Press datelined Chicago offered his corrected account:. While the story of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow isn't true, the legendary tale lives on.
Lithographs of the scene were produced in the late s. The legend of the cow and the lantern were the basis for popular songs over the years, and the story was even told in a major Hollywood movie produced in , "In Old Chicago.
Zanuck, provided a completely fictitious account of the O'Leary family and portrayed the story of the cow kicking over the lantern as the truth. And while "In Old Chicago" may have been completely wrong on the facts, the movie's popularity and the fact that it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture helped perpetuate the legend of Mrs.
O'Leary's cow. The Great Chicago Fire is remembered as one of the major disasters of the 19th century , along with the eruption of Krakatoa or the Johnstown Flood.
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