Storey had supported Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 presidential election . While opposing secession , the '' Times '' became a vehement critic of Abraham Lincoln after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued . General Ambrose Burnside shut it down in 1863 for two days , but loyalists complained about the suppression of freedom of the press , and Lincoln quickly lifted the ban on the paper 's publication . The paper 's plant was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , but after publishing out of improvised facilities for two years , it began publishing from a new facility in 1873 . It established a London bureau in 1877 to get news on the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878
Great Chicago Fire
Great Chicago Fire
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