In the 1890s, as Kansas City crept farther and farther from the riverfront, it began looking less and less like a small ...

In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world-dazzling showpiece ... the steel used by the fair, was struck by a brainstorm ...

You'll get access to an ad-free website with a faster photo browser, the chance to claim free tickets to a host of events (including everything from Summerfest to the Milwaukee Film Festival), access ...

On the evening of July 12, 1893, in the hall of a massive new Beaux ... which had tormented the throngs visiting the nearby Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, a carnival of never-before ...

who oversaw the construction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and con artist H. H. Holmes, who claimed he murdered 27 victims in the area around the time of the expo. It's not yet clear whether ...

Shagden approached a group of businessmen to organize the 1939-40 World ... The fair was designed with civic improvement in mind. The site was laid out with Beaux Arts radiating pathways inspired by ...

WARSAW — Just 100 years ago, Warsaw was connected to the east by railroad. The first train left the Buffalo Street station on ...

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

On his first day managing the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Lou Piniella surveyed the ballpark from foul pole to foul pole. And he saw that it was very good. “This is a fun park to play baseball in,” ...