The 12th edition of Expo Chicago opened to VIPs at noon on Thursday, following a vernissage brunch hosted by the fair and the ...

The Midwest's biggest art fair draws curators and gallerists from around the world and is unfolding amid a crackdown on ...

Expo Chicago returns to Navy Pier this weekend, bringing art from around the globe and amplifying the city’s status as a ...

1893 - The four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World was celebrated in Chicago with an enormous fair. Known as the Chicago World’s Fair, or the World ...

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 ...

The Ferris wheel made its debut 128 years ago on June 21 at the Chicago World's Fair Kate Hogan is Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE, as well as the editor of Stories to Make You ...

Photo Provided The BIG wheel, a highlight of the 1892-93 World’s Fair and Exposition held at Chicago, was built by George Washington Gale Ferris — the first “ferris” wheel. At 266 feet ...

However the Chicago World's Fair of 1933 took modernistic architecture to a different level of scale and colour which was embraced by America and around the world in the 1930s. In a decade of ...