This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on January 28, 2025. Imagine. It’s 1893 and you embark upon “The White City,” Chicago’s World Fair.

The Ferris wheel is just one of the many inventions that debuted when the World's Fair in Chicago opened on May 1, 1893. Rice University history professor and CNN presidential historian Douglas ...

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The 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition was hosted by Chicago just a couple decades after the entire city burned down, and it put the city back on the world map. The World's Fair, as it's also known, ...