That's something that separates us from the attendees of the 1893 World's Fair. Visitors flocked to this global exposition featuring advances in industry, science, culture, and more -- and they ...

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 out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...

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.

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 ... the first major American fair since the Philadelphia ...