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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.
This was the second world's fair that Chicago had hosted, and by the time it closed, it had been visited by nearly 40 million fairgoers. As was the case with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the Century of Progress Exposition was conceived in an atmosphere of economic, political, and social crisis, shaped this time by the economic recession that followed America's victory in World War I ...
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.
The Homes of Tomorrow Exhibition was part of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The Fair's theme that year was a Century of Progress, and celebrated man's innovations in architecture, science, technology and transportation.
Feb 20, 2019 · Opened in 1933, and held again in 1934, the fair commemorated a hundred years since the 1833 incorporation of Chicago as a town. During the Great Depression, the Century of Progress presented a bold and hopeful vision of the future by promoting the message that collaboration among science, industry and government would make a better world.
July 12, 2016. 20th Century, Collection Essays. Essay. Gallery. Selected Sources. Introduction. Just forty years after the 1893 Columbian Exposition brought visitors from around the world to Chicago for a world’s fair, Chicago hosted its second world’s fair, A Century of Progress International Exposition.
May 27, 2017 · May 27, 2017. Chicago's 1933 World's Fair Images: From WTTW's 'Chicago Stories'. 84 years ago today, in the midst of the Great Depression, Chicago opened an extravagant World's Fair.
