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Margaret Stevers, who writes for the Chicago Tribune under the name Sally Joy Brown, is at the Tribune display at the Women’s Worlds Fair in Chicago in April 1926.

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 ...

The World’s Columbian Exposition, informally known as the Chicago World’s Fair, ran from May 1 to Oct. 30,1893, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ landing in the New ...

In fact, especially in times of difficulty, the fair mattered. Two of the most popular world’s fairs, Chicago’s 1933-1934 Century of Progress and New York’s 1939 World of Tomorrow, took ...

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, or Columbian Exposition, was a distinct point in history for science and culture, one that even West Virginia had a presence in. Running ...

The Family Folklore Foundation Inc. is presenting a live radio play called “The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: If Houses Could Talk,” at Indiana University Northwest at 11 a.m. Friday.

With Fair buildings as the background, officials for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 pose for a group portrait, Chicago. Burnham stands third from left. Buffalo Bill Cody ...

Ever since The World’s Fair debuted in 1851, people worldwide have been fascinated by the creativity, inspiration and ideas showcased at the esteemed event. Since then, the World’s Fair has ...

John McCaa: During the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Black leaders Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass might have met. There’s no record of their ...