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The 1893 World's Fair would end up drawing 20 million people to its Chicago showground. Two of them, sisters Minnie and Nannie Williams, came at the invitation of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
That's something that separates us from the attendees of the 1893 World's Fair. Visitors flocked to this global exposition featuring advances in industry, science, culture, and more -- and they ...
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 ...
[SPOILER ALERT] in which a serial killer in Chicago lures young women to gruesome deaths within a hastily and shadily constructed “Murder Castle” just blocks from the 1893 World’s Fair. It’s a great ...
The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893 ... the first major American fair since the Philadelphia ...