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 ...

Ferris wheels have been turning for more than 130 years, the first one constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, designed by George Washington Gale Ferris. Paul Durica ...

Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and H.H. Holmes, the cunning serial killer murdering his victims mere miles away. With a TV adaptation from Hulu ...

Eiffel himself proposed an idea: a bigger tower. Merci, mais non. As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago took shape, there was a void where its exclamation point was meant to ...

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