Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not much is left of the massive buildings built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Despite a rocky start, the event became one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicagoans didn’t have to travel far to find adventure 130 years ago this month — the world came to us. The party was so grand, we ...

The 1893 World's Fair was hosted by Chicago just a couple decades after the entire city burned down, and it put the city back ...

This week, Paul goes behind the curtain with full spectrum content producer Michael Finney who explores music, audio, video, photography and writing over his career and is recently integrated in a ...

The brownie, inspired by the Gilded Age socialite Bertha Palmer, was created as part of the preparations for Chicago's 1893 ...

CHICAGO — If you’ve ever wanted to travel back in time to the 1893’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, one resident’s mission has been to make that possible. Michael Finney has always been fascinated ...

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 ...

The 1893 World's Fair was hosted by Chicago just a couple decades after the entire city burned down, and it put the city back ...

In November 1893, the journalist Kate Field asked what should be done with the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition, the great majority of which were built as temporary structures. “Apply the ...

After being asked by Ellis Neofotistos when the addition to the Collinsville School was built, I did some research and that was the topic of last week’s column. But Ellis had a second question about ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. At the Chicago World's Columbian ...