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Dec. 19, 2020: Chicago History Book Club discusses the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (online)

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The Chicago History Book Club will discuss three books about the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition during their online meeting at 10 am on Saturday, December 19:

Robert Muccigrosso’s Celebrating the New World: Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Ivan R. Dee, 1993), Erik Larson’s best-selling The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Crown, 2003), and Jeanne Madeline Weimann’s The Fair Women: The Story of the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Chicago Review Press, 1981).

Participants can register through the Chicago Public Library: https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/5fb42dbf4ae047330bc3b7ff 

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