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 ... buildings served as exhibition halls, housing ...

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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.

[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 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Mid-November through the first week of January, experience the annual "Christmas Around the World" and "Holidays of Light" exhibits ... in 1893. The fair brought together ...

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 ... exhibits were the meat and potatoes of the World's Fair ...