1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10. 1964 – The→

BusinessNewsDaily: Skier Shannon Bahrke earned Olympic glory when she won the silver medal in the moguls during the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City.→

BusinessNewsDaily: Skier Michelle Roark’s entrepreneurial career began shortly after returning home from the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy. During her training for the Freestyle→

BusinessNewsDaily: The skier, also a football player at the University of Colorado, finished sixth in moguls at the 2006 Olympics and ninth in 2002.→

BusinessNewsDaily: Ice skater Kristi Yamaguchi won the hearts of Americans during the 1992 Winter Olympics in Alberta, Canada. It was there that she won→

BusinessNewsDaily: Few have dominated the Olympics like sprinter Michael Johnson did in 1996. Having already won a gold medal during the 1992 Olympics in→

BusinessNewsDaily: In 1976, Zimmerman earned a spot on the Summer Olympics team after winning the U.S. Championships on the balance beam and floor exercises.→

BusinessNewsDaily: Swimmer Josh Davis earned Olympic glory in 1996 when he was the only male in any sport from any nation to win three→

BusinessNewsDaily: The California native took home a silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by swimming in the prelims of the 400-medley→

BusinessNewsDaily: Boxer George Foreman earned his initial stardom during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. It was there that he cemented himself as→

Green Valley News: As fans of the summer Olympic Games eagerly await the opening ceremonies July 27 in London, Ron and Dagmar Munn will→

Ever wonder what happens to the businesses when the Olympics come to town? The Telegraph has the story of one man, Michael Spinks, and→

NPR: The elite athletes who travel to London for this summer’s Olympic Games will include petite gymnasts, huge wrestlers — and elite horses, which→

Does your garbage can tell you the weather, or whether the stock market is up or down? Mine doesn’t, but for the 2012 London→

Sometimes big companies run promotions that require them to give away a ton more than the bargained for. It’s hard to think even with→

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that as curling season gets under way, the handful of entrepreneurs who cater to the quirky Scottish sport→

For Olympic athletes who double as small-business owners, the more challenging feat sometimes takes place off the slopes, so says The Wall Street Journal.→