The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum's 35,000-item collection. About 1,000 images have been ...

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.

The Field Museum is digging into its century-old archive to explain to the world what the 1893 Columbian Exposition was all about.

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 1893 Chicago World Fair, also known as World’s Columbian Exposition, had a huge impact on where we’re at today and some of the items we use. Leslie Fager, staff member at Overland Trail ...

120 years ago this summer, you'd probably be spending your August figuring out what to see at the Columbian Exposition, aka, Chicago's 1893 World's Fair. It's over.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Holmes reputedly killed dozens of people at his hotel of horrors during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It featured gas chambers and an industrial oven in the basement.

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 ...