The original was destroyed in a fire, so a replica was made in ... (Chicago Tribune) 1890: “Great is Chicago. It gets the World’s Fair.” The city was awarded the event by the U.S. House ...

While the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 reduced much of the city ... he found selling his family’s beer at the Chicago World’s ...

The Chicago Century of Progress Exposition ... forward-looking streamlined ideal caught fire. Completed in time for the second half of the World's Fair, two trains belonging to competing railroads ...

After years of development, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are nearing a Devil in the White City adaptation. With DiCaprio potentially starring, Scorsese is in talks to direct the 20th ...

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 ...

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 ...