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 ...

1893 - The four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World was celebrated in Chicago with an enormous fair. Known as the Chicago World’s Fair, or the World ...

The story takes place in 1893, Chicago prepared to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a monumental undertaking spearheaded by architect Daniel Burnham. He conceived and designed the ...

But a more recent innovation was causing an even bigger stir: the Garis-Cochran Dishwashing Machine, the only device in the ...

Stories include when Chicago hosted the World’s Fair, the return of Malört to Chicago bars, the first public knowledge of Atomic Cake, and more.

In 1892, Douglass arrived in Chicago to serve as the World’s Fair commissioner for Haiti’s exhibition, having previously served as a diplomat there. While he was in town to tour the ...

Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Limited hours apply for select dates, so be sure to ...

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