America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 ... earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the privilege of hosting the fair. Like the 1876 Centennial Exposition before ...

Archaeologists turned up remnants of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 ... and sites. Chicago officials have pegged the cost of taxpayer-funded roadwork and underpass construction ...

CHICAGO — If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time to the 1893’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago ... engineering experience to get the World’s Fair into an emerging new medium ...

Imagine a city a buzz with construction, tourists and wonders of the world being put on display ... as they did 120 years ago. The Chicago Architecture Foundation has created a way for you to ...

What would you do if you had a time machine? Go watch the ancient Egyptian pyramids being built? Hang out with Jesus and turn some water into wine? Kill Hitler, maybe? These are all, no doubt ...

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition served as a showcase for a fully rebuilt and vibrant Chicago 22 years after much of the city was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. This event became a ...

Entrepreneurial adrenaline ran high and hard at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Meant to be a post-frontier showcase of America's civilization and economic maturity, the expo was more than just a $ ...

“In a funeral pyre … imprisoned by flames,” read the headline of a front-page story of the Chicago ... 1893, dawned as a typical day at the World’s Fair. Tribune headlines about the ...

photography and writing over his career and is recently integrated in a beautiful new book and documentary about the 1893 Columbian Exposition, both currently available on Amazon. Michael talks about ...

The World Music Festival gets started ... the Field Museum and a lecturer at the University of Chicago. She became interested in the 1893 expo, when she started playing in a gamelan, an ensemble ...