After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , Woodard was one of the Committee of Seventy that oversaw the enforcement of law and order . Woodard was the Liberal Republican Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives from his district in 1872 , but was unsuccessful . He then retired from politics . In 1877 , Governor Shelby Moore Cullom named Woodard a member of the West Park Board of Commissioners . He was soon named president of the board and donated his salary to the parks system
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
Willard Woodard