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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1]
Jul 16, 2024 · World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
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MacMonnies Fountain and Machinery Hall, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.- Circus performers along the Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- U.S. Government Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- The original Ferris wheel, designed by George Washington Gale Ferris, built for the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
- Letter written by 16-year-old Jane Elliott Sever during her visit to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
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Jun 4, 2014 · After you learn about the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair and what remains of it today, look at the HH Holmes murder house that lured in victims of the fair and haunting images from the great Chicago fire of 1871.
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- Palace of Fine Arts
- Wooded Island
- A Ticket Booth
- Statue of The Republic
- Other Sites of Note
While the other major buildings of the White City were torn down, this Beaux Arts domed building still stands. Today, it’s home to the Museum of Science and Industry at 5700 S. Lake Shore Dr.
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead designed this island in the center of the fair. It was intended to offer a quiet alternative to the crowds in the buildings around it. After the fair closed, the island became overgrown even as Jackson Park sprung up around it. In recent decades, the city has worked to clean up the island, completing...
Otherwise overshadowed by massive and ornate exhibition halls, a tiny ticket booth from the World’s Fair was saved in the early 20th century by Nathan Moore, who moved it to what’s today known as the Hills-DeCaro House at 313 Forest Ave. in Oak Park to be used as a children’s playhouse. It still sits in the yard of the privately owned Frank Lloyd W...
The original 65-foot-tall sculpture that served as a symbol of the fair no longer remains, but there’s a 24-foot-tall bronze replica at Hayes and Richards drives in Jackson Park.
The world’s first Ferris wheel was unveiled at the fair on the Midway Plaisance and stood 264 feet. It was moved to Clark and Wrightwood in Lincoln Park before being moved to St. Louis for the 1904 World’s Fair. Today, the Midway Plaisance ice rink sits where that first Ferris wheel once stood. Another site synonymous with the 1893 World’s Fair — e...
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Two world’s fairs. Forty years apart. The World’s Columbian Exposition and the A Century Of Progress Exposition were both hosted in Chicago. Intended to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s landfall in the Americas, the World’s Columbian Exposition showcased new technology, fine art, horticulture, transportation advances, and ...
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial.
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Organized to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landfall in the New World, the World's Columbian Exposition became a defining moment in Chicago's history and the history of the United States as a whole.
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