America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...

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The story takes place in 1893, Chicago prepared to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a monumental undertaking spearheaded by architect Daniel Burnham. He conceived and designed the ...

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Manhattan’s historic Round Barn’s significance stretches even beyond its links to Chicago’s Columbian Exhibition.

The World’s Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago on May 1, 1893. Former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in 2010. The federal judge who presided over Burge’s ...

As the United States approached the year 1900 and the beginning of a new century, national optimism peaked, with newspaper ...

The Chicago flag tells a story in its stars and stripes, and there is meaning behind each of the elements of the iconic banner.

1893 - The four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World was celebrated in Chicago with an enormous fair. Known as the Chicago World’s Fair, or the World ...