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Rumors spread quickly that wood buildings would soon be prohibited in downtown. A rebuilding frenzy was on. Quality was not as important as speed and quantity. Within a month, over 5,000 houses were either rebuilt or were under construction. Real estate speculators, banking on the rumor that wood buildings would be banned, saw an opportunity to profit. Real estate values in downtown Chicago escalated. It is no coincidence that the first building finished after the fire was a real estate office.

Upon hearing news of the fire, he quickly returned to Rome and personally organized and led the firefighters. First, he tried to save his own palace, but alas, it was lost in the fire. He then set up temporary shelters for the thousands left homeless and provided them with food and water. Nevertheless, the rumors persisted. If Nero did not personally start it, perhaps he had ordered it. Tacitus recounted: [N]o one dared to stop the . . [fire], because of incessant menaces from a number of persons who forbade the extinguishing of the flames.

Forty years after his death, parts of Nero’s Golden House became the substructure for another emperor’s extravagant building project, the Baths of Trajan, constructed in 109 ad. Historians believe that the walls of the main banquet hall that Suetonius mentioned in the quote above formed part of Trajan’s bathhouse foundations. A strange mechanism and octagon-shaped room exist among the bath’s foundation walls, suggesting that at one time the mechanism—possibly water powered— could have made the ceiling of the room revolve.

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