Organizers of Chicago`s 1992 World`s Fair unveiled a ”final,” scaled-down plan Tuesday that cuts costs by 30 percent, reduces the amount of lakefill at Burnham Harbor and recommends &#8… ...

Stuart Cohen and Anders Nereim, “Project for the 1992 Chicago World’s Fair” (1984) Credit: Oz: Vol. 6 Once upon a time, cities included the world’s fair among their biggest plans and ...

Plans for a 1992 World`s Fair on Chicago`s lakefront died Thursday, the apparent victim of a troubled financial outlook, a lack of public support and political divisions in Chicago and Springfield ...

Mr. Burnham used to trace, to the World's Fair at Chicago the beginning of the American city-planning: His own experiences with that enterprise taught him the lesson that cooperation among artists was ...

In 1933, architect George Fred Keck built a glass house to showcase the future of residential architecture at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair — and soon, that same home will undergo a massive ...

The lack of site relics was by design. There is no opportunity to walk through the preserved 1933 world’s fair, which was held on present-day Northerly Island and embraced the aesthetics later ...

Plan to Bring 100,000 Jews to World Fair in Chicago. ... Plans for staging the epic pageant entitled “Romance of a People” and for bringing 100,000 Jews to Chicago Soldier Field to witness ...

There, as part of Chicago’s forward-looking 1933 World’s Fair, stood 11 exhibition houses billed as homes of the future by virtue of their design, building materials or construction methods.