The World's Columbian Exposition established a Neo-Classical revival in Chicago and across America. Although the Court of Honor influenced American architecture for decades to come, most visitors ...

In 1893 Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse’s alternating current powered Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition leading to the use of electricity in homes and businesses. This advance catapulted the ...

Logan Square cocktail bar the Meadowlark has unveiled a new drink menu whisking patrons through the grand sprawl of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in honor of the cultural landmark’s ...

Released in Aug. 2019, Finney published “1893: Chicago’s Columbian Exposition ... Finney used his engineering experience to get the World’s Fair into an emerging new medium — augmented ...

the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, where the Eiffel Tower, then the tallest building in the world, was the centerpiece, and the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 ...

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Chicago has played host to many expositions in the city’s history — perhaps most notably to the Columbian Exposition, often called the World’s Fair of 1893. In what is now known as Jackson ...

It first was used at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 ... Museum This view of the giant Ferris wheel at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis is from a glass slide taken by Edward Daniels.

That’s because the eye-catching shingle style brownstone structure started its life elsewhere—in Chicago at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It served as a pavilion for the state of ...