Nursery Rhyme on a Poptart?

Question

Everyone knows this song right?

Late lise night, when we were all in bed.
Mrs O'leary, hung a latern in the shed
yada yada.

Well I just got a poptart trivial persuit which said
what town was set fire when mrs oleary's cow kicked over a lantern.
Well the song never mentions where they are. and the answer was Chicago s.... why????

Answer 1

The reference is to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. If you're interested follow the link below.

Answer 2

The Great Chicago fire began on Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871 in or around a small shed that bordered the property at 137 DeKoven Street. Traditional accounts say a cow kicked over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary. However, the reporter who first wrote the story admitted in 1893 that he'd made it all up because he felt it would make "more colorful copy."
The fire's spread was due to the city's overuse of wood in building, strong northwest winds, and a drought before the fire. Chicago's own fatal errors included citizens not really caring about it, firefighters overly tired from battling a fire the day before, and the city not reacting fast enough (when the alarm went off, it was believed the smoke, etc. was left over from the previous day's fire).
The results of the fire were an area of destruction of 4 miles long by 3/4 mile wide (34 blocks or over 2,000 acres); loss of 73 miles of roads, 120 miles of sidewalks, about 2,000 lamp posts, and at least 17,500 buildings for $222 million in lost property (1/3 of the city's value). Some 90,000 people of 300,000 citizens there were left homeless and 200-300 died. The fire was so fierce it was said to surpass Napoleon's siege of Moscow in 1812.
Catherine O'Leary was the perfect one to blame for it because she was an Irish immigrant, and Roman Catholic as well--a combination not well-liked at the time.
It is believed the man who first reported the fire--Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan--was the one who started it by igniting some hay while trying to steal some milk.
Other theories included a man who'd lost at a gambling game of craps; a meteor shower (1st suggested in 1882), or the breakup of a comet over the midwest (because there was no smoke and a blue flame).

Answer 3

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday October 8 to early Tuesday October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about four square miles in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th century, the rebuilding that began almost immediately spurred Chicago's development into one of the most populous and economically important American and international cities.

The fire started at about 9 p.m. on Sunday, October 8, in or around a small shed that bordered the alley behind 137 DeKoven Street. The traditional account of the origin of the fire is that it was started by a cow kicking over a lantern in the barn owned by Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, but Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who created the cow story, admitted in 1893 that he had made it up because he thought it would make colorful copy.

The fire's spread was aided by the city's overuse of wood for building, the strong northwesterly winds, and a drought before the fire. The city also made fatal errors by not reacting soon enough and citizens by not caring about the fire when it began. The firefighters were also exhausted from fighting a fire that happened the day before.