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Bookmark or Share- World’s Columbian Exposition | History, Facts, & SignificanceWorld’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
- THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY | WTTW ChicagoAuthor Erik Larson captured the story of Chicago’s first documented serial killer in his best-selling 2003 non-fiction novel, Devil in the White City. The White City’s grand neoclassical buildings were designed by a team of top architects led by Daniel Burnham.
- The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgroundsThe Panic of 1893 led to the greatest economic depression the country had yet experienced, and the Great Strike of 1894 showed that beautiful architecture did not ensure a compliant labor force, not when their wages were slashed and rents increased. ... Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 2893 World’s Fair (National Museum of ...
- The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgroundsIn short, the White City was a thoroughly and deliberately segregated space. Frontispiece to Ida B. Wells’s pamphlet, The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.
- The White City - American HeritageBuilt by Chicago’s elite, the White City was their vision of what a great city could be like at a time when the country’s large cities were almost universally thought to be ugly, disorderly, dangerous, and ungovernable.
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