Chicago in the 1890s: A City Comes of Age,” which opens Thursday at the Chicago Historical Society, is partly about extravagant dreams. Aptly, the World`s Fair portion of this exhibition is on a ...

Email us. It took eight ballots, but Chicago was finally awarded on Feb. 24, 1890 the opportunity to host a World's Fair. "From the start the combination of New York, St. Louis, and Washington ...

In November of 1890, a group of women called the Board of Lady Managers gathered in Chicago, a city that had been chosen as the site for the World’s Fair of 1893. The fairgrounds, an area of ...

CHICAGO, Oct. 7. -- George R. Davis, Director General of the World's Fair, has issued the following address to the press of the United States: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

An arrangement of buildings around a terrace had been used at the last World's Fair, in Paris of 1889 -- but the Chicago site was ... was only 63 million in 1890, or that there was an economic ...

An 1890 issue of Scientific American explained ... But after that fair, it was demolished in 1906. When the Chicago World’s Fair was funded through Congress, money was specifically allocated ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 17. -- The World's Fair Commission met this morning, and President Palmer announced his election of the Executive Committee. This committee will name a Director General, and by ...

In 1890, when the Chicago fair was first being planned ... was the nickname given to the gleaming buildings of parts of the World’s Columbian Exposition — though it could have applied to ...

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Paul Durica, director of exhibitions at the Chicago History Museum, notes that Ferris was an up-and-coming engineer in the early 1890s, when an announcement went out from the World's Fair ...

In the 1890s the United ... But it was the world’s fair that became the perfect vehicle for exposing Americans to the wonders of the modern world. Visitors to Chicago’s main exhibit, "The ...