In the 1890s, as Kansas City crept farther and farther from the riverfront, it began looking less and less like a small ...

Though the U.S. honors workers in September — with Labor Day, which also has Chicago roots — the May 1886 events are commemorated in Chicago by a memorial on Desplaines Street, north of Randolph ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux-Arts building that would ... throngs visiting the nearby Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, a carnival of never-before ...

As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago took shape ... In fact, a carpenter named William Somers was building 50-foot wooden wheels at Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Coney ...

In the mid-1890s, Washington state contained an estimated 63 prune dryers, 43 in Clark County. In 1901, The Columbian ...

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Created to host the Great exhibition in 1851, which the Bureau International des Expositions regards as the first World Expo, the giant Crystal Palace building was designed by engineer Joseph Paxton.

This will be the second time the Japanese city is hosting the World Expo, having previously done so in 1970. The opening ceremony of the World Expo 2025 was held in the Japanese city of Osaka on ...