University of Illinois at Chicago athletic teams are named the Flames since 1982, in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire. Although set in Philadelphia, Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier portrays the nationwide impact the 1871 Chicago fire had on the stock markets and the financial world. The 1938 film In Old Chicago is centered on the fire, with a highly fictionalized portrayal of the O'Leary family as the main characters. In 1974, the Chicago Fire football team played in the short-lived World Football League. Another Chicago Fire played in the American Football Association. Events of the 1986 novel Illinois! by Noel Gerson writing as Dana Fuller Ross occur around the Great Chicago Fire. The 1987 Williams pinball "Fire!" was inspired by the Great Chicago Fire. The 1995 book The Great Fire by Jim Murphy tells the story of the fire for children, and was a Newbery Honor book in 1996. A 1998 episode of the American television series Early Edition depicted Gary Hobson finding himself back in time in 1871 trying to prevent the fire. While he initially succeeds and stops the fire after the lantern is kicked over, subsequent events lead to the fire restarting, preserving the historical event while changing its origin. The Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. In 2014, the city of Chicago and Redmoon Theater partnered to create The Great Chicago Fire Festival. Held on October 4, 2014, the event fell victim to technical difficulties as replicas of 1871 houses on floating barges in the Chicago River failed to ignite properly due to electrical problems and heavy rain on the preceding days. The Beach Boys' instrumental track titled "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" was inspired by the fabled cause of the Great Chicago Fire, and served as the representation for the classical element fire on their abandoned project Smile. Adopted on April 4, 1917, the Chicago flag represents the Great Chicago fire with one of the four red stars present on the flag. See also Dwight L. Moody – 19th-century evangelist whose church was burned down in the fire Horatio Spafford – author of hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" References Further readingChicago and the Great Conflagration – Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, 1871, 528 pp. History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West. Rev. Edgar J. Goodspeed, D.D.,