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 ...

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 ...

Based on Erik Larson's bestselling nonfiction book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, the story explores the chilling exploits of HH Holmes, the ...