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, had
The World’s fair were once an event housing thousands of people where a country could show off all of its technological advances and industrial masterpieces. People can to see the culture and the landscape of places. The 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, France saw a dazzling centerpiece that has come to stand as a symbol of not only the Fair but also France itself. The fairs were not only a source of acclaim and a way to show off, they were also a way to make money for their respective countries and cities
the man who was in charge of constructing the World’s Colombian Exposition, Daniel Burnham, and the other of an intelligent killer who used the fair to lure in prey, H.H. Holmes. The novel serves as a brilliant view of the stresses that went into the fabrication of the World’s Colombian Exposition, also known as the White City and the Chicago World’s Fair, as well as the darker application of the White City’s nationwide appeal. Within the story arc of Daniel Burnham there are three main characters
In 1791 a beautiful thing happened. In 1893 that thing came to Chicago. That thing was a magnificent escape from your day to day life. It was almost too good to be true. It was like a sample plate of the world set before you. All the unfamiliar smells, sights, and tastes put your five senses into a reverie. That thing was The World’s Fair. The World’s Fair is a place where inventions, innovations, cultures, lifestyles, music, [Type text] technology, ideas, beliefs, you name it, they all
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. Through these alternating stories, Larson
violence. Europe saw America as a wealthy nation lacking elegance and grace (PBS). The close of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century played host to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The Fair would prove the Europeans wrong, the Fair would define America as place rich in innovation and culture. The World’s Fair is formally known as The Colombian Exposition, celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. The exposition attracted twenty six million visitors
active serial killer between the years of 1893-1896. Even though the exact number of victims is unknown, it was said that he attracted many woman who he seduced. He would seduce and torture them in his famous “Murder Castle” in which he built when he moved to Chicago . In this building the upper floor would contain living spaces as if it was a hotel, but there was more than expected. Rooms contained gas jets as intentions to “asphyxiate
Dr. H. H. Holmes Dr. Henry Howard Holmes was considered a well groomed, intelligent, up incoming business man. He was admired by many of the locals in Chicago because he was becoming very successful very fast, already acquiring a pharmacy of his own. What the locals did not know was that Holmes was far from what he had seemed, acquiring most of his fortune through fraud, forgery, and even murder. Holmes tended to prey on people mostly women and women that were rich and had very few family ties.
that demanded fair wages, better working conditions, eradicating child labor, and regulations for work hours. These revolts clearly demonstrated some sort
to spread the horrible truth of lynching. In 1893, she went overseas and toured England, Scotland, and Wales meeting with leaders and giving speeches. Later that year, she met with Frederick Douglass and others to write “Reasons Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” “This pamphlet documented the progress of blacks since their arrival in America and was in response to the exclusion of blacks in the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and was distributed to over 20,000 people”