Ask Geoffrey

Ask Geoffrey

Have you ever been to Cherry, Illinois? Geoffrey Baer tells us what horrific event occurred in that tiny town 100 years ago this month in tonight's edition of Ask Geoffrey.

• Cherry Mine Centennial Nov. 14-15
• Cherry Mine Disaster, 1909 -- The Illinois Labor History Society
• Read an excerpt from: Smoldering City -- Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
• Chicago Fire timeline -- PBS American Experience