The First World Fair took place in Chicago in 1893. Chicago was not the first choice to host the World Fair. The U.S. Congress would be the one to make the big decision. Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and Washington D.C. all placed bids to try to host the 1893 fair. In the end, the choices came down to New York and Chicago.” New York considered Chicago a backwater town with not much to recommend it.” (Where the Future Came From: A Trip Through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, 2013). Chicago, however
Devil in the White City by Erik Larson told the tale of two cities: Chicago’s White City, the gleaming, colossal World’s Columbian Exposition held in 1893 and Chicago’s Black City, the dirty, poverty-ridden, and crime-filled reality of Chicago at the end of the nineteenth century. Larson organized the book through alternating, chronological stories of two men: Daniel Burnham, the chief architect and designer of the World’s Fair, and Henry Howard Holmes, a charming conman and psychotic serial killer
The first World’s Fair began in 1851, bringing people from all over the world to enjoy its magnificence. Lasting anywhere from three to six months, these fairs allowed people from all over the world to come together and spread revolutionary ideas. Ordinary people, who were tired of their boring lives could come to this extraordinary event and embark in the extravagant entertainment provided, enjoy rides, exotic attractions, and enjoy a plethora of foods and beverages. On the other hand, brilliant
of Public Parks added fireworks displays, marry-go rounds, and baseball fields to burial facilities for eminent figures (16), which didn’t fit Olmsted’s vision. They saw the park as an opportunity for business, while Olmsted’s views and the “early history of Central Park reflected a conflict in conceptions of culture and urban recreation that would become increasingly apparent toward the end of the nineteenth century”
The growth of American industrial might in the 1870s and 1880s through the creation of unions representing the workers for fair conditions. Working conditions at the time were terrible: little concern for safety existed in most factories, pay was low, benefits were nonexistent and the work day was often 10 to 12 hours, six days a week {Illinois Labor}. The immediate focus of the unions were to achieve the eight-hour day of work. The national movement for the eight-hour day reached a height in the
of what a city could be. To do this, Burnham used monumental grandeur which helped to represent a vision of order and “embodied the genteel ideal of culture: “correct and cosmopolitan, tasteful and urban, dignified and didactic” (21). Although the fair proved to be very popular among people from all over, one thing was very clear, many who visited the White City left disappointed. Kasson gives examples of this by describing how a writer by the name of Hamlin Garland invited his parents to the park
The Ghetto Effect and the Urban Traumatic Stress Syndrome (UTSS) {WARNING CONTENTS MAY CAUSE EMOTIONAL DRAMA} This book is not based upon scientific research and study. Nor is it based upon someone who has spent his or her life in academia. I am just your average American Joe who has been blessed to see every aspect of American society first hand. This book is not intended to appease anyone. If it causes you to find hate in your heart or want to run out and change things. Then this is good