Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not much is left of the massive buildings built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Despite a rocky start, the event became one of ...
The Chicago World’s Fair took place from May to October 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the New World, the massive event covered 690 acres. It featured nearly 200 ...
The Columbian Exposition of 1893 is almost impossible to imagine: a spectacle of 200 gleaming white neoclassical buildings on over 600 acres in Chicago, a temporary city whose main purpose was ...