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But it was a reality. STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC. —The one figure intended to be symbolical and representative of the Fair, as a whole, was the gigantic statue of The Republic, at the eastern end of the waterway in the Court of Honor. A figure, the total height of which from the water was one hundred feet, it stood, grand, majestic and kindly, a ...
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The Museum of Science and Industry and the Art Institute of Chicago weren’t always what they are today. Both are housed in buildings constructed for the 1893 world’s fair. What’s now the art museum downtown started as a home for lectures and international scholars. The science museum, on the other hand, first was an art museum. Located at the north...
Today, a new exhibit at the Elmhurst Historical Museum, 120 E. Park Ave., in Elmhurst, shows a local angle on the Columbian Exposition. Thomas Barbour Bryan, the man regarded as the father of Elmhurst, was tasked with persuading Chicago city leaders and international figures to support the fair. The exhibit tells the story of Bryan and other Elmhur...
The legends were true – Captain Magnus Anderson knew it. Just a few years before the Columbian Exposition, a farmer in Norway had discovered in his field the Gokstad, a buried Viking ship. To prove the old legends that Leif Erikson really had reached the New World before Columbus, Anderson built a replica of the Gokstad, and with a crew of 11, sail...
America’s first commemorative postage stamps were issued during the fair, but Ken Srail didn’t realize that as a kid collecting stamps. He thought they looked cool. As a teenager, he searched flea markets and antique shows for Columbian Exposition memorabilia. Today, the professional stamp dealer, based in Cleveland, maintains a unique collection o...
A replica of that gilded woman, the Statue of the Grand Republic, still stands in Jackson Park, extending its arms over what was the Court of Honor, though today it’s located a little west. The original statue was destroyed a few months after the world’s fair, when a giant blaze claimed many buildings. Today, the Midway is large and vacant, save fo...
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Jan 14, 2023 · In the late 1800s, Chicago had a goal to transform its image from a stockyard city to a world-class destination. They accomplished this by winning the bid for the 1893 World’s Fair, with the help of architect Daniel Burnham. Despite setbacks and controversy, the Fair was a huge success, drawing 27 million visitors and making $35 million in ...
James Foster / For the Sun-Times. The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition — the World’s Fair that gave Chicago one of the stars on the city flag — kicked off 125 years ago Tuesday, on May 1 ...
Sep 18, 2020 · Court of Honor, Chicago world's fair. ROBERT STEUTEVILLE SEP. 18, 2020. I recently read The Devil in the White City, about the Chicago 1893 World’s Fair. One place that I would like to go back in time to see, just for a day, would be this event. They say that some visitors would break down weeping upon entering the Court of Honor, above ...
Jun 4, 2014 · The World’s Columbian Exposition is worth remembering for many reasons, not all of them good. For example, America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, stalked its tree-lined lanes. However, the fact remains that in 1893, Chicago pulled off a feat of beauty and ingenuity never topped by any other world’s fair.
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Oct 2, 2008 · The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was largely designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. The Exposition covered more than 600 acres on Chicago’s south side and featured approximately ...
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