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.

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The Chicago World’s Fair took place from May to October 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in the New World, the massive event covered 690 acres. It featured nearly 200 ...

The year is 1893. Chicago is hosting the world. At the World’s Columbian Exposition, over 65,000 exhibits are strewn over 630 acres of the Midway Plaisance and Jackson Park. Structures erected ...

Title on added t.p.: World's fair, Chicago, 1893. Collection of newspaper clippings from Inter ocean and various other newspapers of 1893-1894. https://siris ...