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 ...

Historians say it’s an impossible question to answer. Major events have shaped Chicago from its very start in 1837, but one ...

Swami Vivekananda, an Indian Hindu monk, delivered his speech at the 1893 World's Parliament or Religions at the building ...

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. Strolling along, one could admire the belly dancing of Fahreda ...

Constructed in 1927 on the east bank of the Chicago River ... on top of the Agriculture Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Spirit of Progress is a replica of a weather ...

When Cutter built the prize-winning Idaho Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, a powerful, rustic structure of vast logs and basalt rock, he saw the California ...