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Apr. 26, 2021-2022: Olmsted 200: Celebrating Olmsted and Parks for All People

2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, social reformer and founder of American landscape architecture. The National Association for Olmsted Parks and partners have launched a year-long celebration to explore Olmsted’s living legacy. Olmsted 200 offers an array of activities and events across the country designed to introduce you to Frederick Law Olmsted and the importance of his work and ideas. One of the "Pillars of the Fair," Olmsted served as chief landscape architect [...]

By |2021-05-02T11:47:03-05:00April 26th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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Apr. 27, 2021: The Amazing World’s Fairs of Chicago (online)

The Elmhurst Public Library in Elmhurst, Illinois, is offering an online presentation "The Amazing World’s Fairs of Chicago" on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, at 7 PM. Explore the two World’s Fairs that put Chicago on the map. The Columbian Exposition of 1893 was built against incredible odds and with a diabolical killer just outside the gates. The 1933 Century of Progress could not go ahead without first getting rid of Al Capone. Learn about both fairs and their tragedies [...]

By |2024-09-23T08:17:09-05:00April 25th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|0 Comments
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THIS IS A LOAN from Isabella Stewart Gardner

A new Netflix documentary This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist reveals the grievous but fascinating story of a 1990 art theft from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Two paintings from the collection (thankfully not stolen!) were loaned by Mrs. Gardner to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts. Hanging in the Swedish display in Gallery 70 was Anders Zorn’s Omnibus (1892). Mrs. Gardner purchased this 49 [...]

By |2021-04-25T11:09:28-05:00April 25th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: , |0 Comments
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The Windy Cities Historians Podcast visits the Columbian Exposition

The Windy Cities Historians Podcast has been working its way chronologically through Chicago history and has now reached the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Episodes 19-21, “The Third Star,” are a three-part look at the event now represented in Chicago’s municipal flag. Co-hosts Chris Lynch and Patrick McBriarty interview Paul Durica, the Director of Exhibitions at the Newberry Library and co-editor of the annotated Chicago by Day and Night, and historian and writer Jeff Nichols. The show’s deep dive into [...]

By |2021-04-03T15:34:36-05:00April 4th, 2021|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|0 Comments
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April 14, 2021: “The (Whole) Story of the 1893 Midway” (online)

Join the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) for a virtual walk down the Midway Plaisance of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, where visitors saw ice and snow in the summer, heard the clang of Egyptian swords, smelled bratwurst in a German Village, tasted Orange Cider, and felt the ground fall away as they ascended the Ferris Wheel. The CAC will be hosting an online lecture "The (Whole) Story of the 1893 Midway" at noon (Central time) on April 14, 2021. This event [...]

By |2024-10-27T12:20:57-05:00April 3rd, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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The women of Effingham, Illinois, go the 1893 World’s Fair

Many small towns sent their best for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. "Effingham County [Illinois] had much to be proud of in its contributions to the exhibits in the Woman’s Building at the Columbian Exposition in 1893," writes Delaine Donaldson. "It’s women were achieving success in a variety of ways and were vital to shaping the course of the county’s history and future." See "A Yearlong Celebration" in the the Effingham Daily News (Mar 15, 2021). The [...]

By |2022-03-05T11:03:51-06:00April 2nd, 2021|Categories: NEWS|Tags: |0 Comments
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Apr. 30, 2021: “A Day at the 1893 World’s Fair” (online)

Our friends at Chicago Detours have provided engaging and informative virtual programming during our pandemic quarantine, with online events such as “Innovations of the 1893 World’s Fair,” “Wonders of the 1893 World’s Fair,” and “LGBT Chicago History in 1893.” They are heading back to the World’s Columbian Exposition on Friday, Apr. 30, 2021, with a virtual tour called “A Day at the 1893 World's Fair.” They will depart for Jackson Park at 7 PM, and guest can join them [...]

By |2021-05-02T11:48:29-05:00March 30th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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Conrad Seipp Columbia Bock is Back from 1893 World’s Fair

The 1893 World’s Fair bar is stocked with a new brew. Columbia Bock from Chicago-based Conrad Seipp Brewing joins Revolution Brewing’s “Fist City” beer, Temperance Beer Company’s “All the World is Here” beer, Virtue Cider’s Southcider, Journeyman Distillery’s Field Gin, and the long line of Columbian Exposition themed products from Few Spirits. Columbia Bock from Chicago-based Conrad Seipp Brewing. The German-style lager is an attempt to recreate the company’s original 1893 recipe based on a contemporary description [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:11:05-05:00March 25th, 2021|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: |0 Comments
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“Farthest North”: An Arctic Tableau at the 1893 World’s Fair

Crowds gather at the 1893 World's Fair to see a panorama depicting the Greely Expedition to the North Pole. [Image from the Illustrated American World's Fair Special Issue, 1893.] Seventy five years ago today, arctic explorer David L. Brainard (1856–1946) died at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D.C. He was the last survivor of the famous Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–84 under the command of Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely (1844–1935), whose final resting place is close [...]

By |2021-05-08T14:38:44-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: |0 Comments
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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor

A visit to the 1893 World’s Fair inspired Penelope Gleason Knapp to pen a romantic and effusive love letter to the wonders of the White City. With Victorian flourish, she describes her rapturous experience in the Court of Honor, “where enchantment reigns supreme.” Her memoir offers a reminder that electric illumination on such a grand scale was an overwhelming experience for many visitors from small towns in America. Penelope Gleason Knapp In 1893, twenty-two-year-old Penelope Gleason Knapp was living [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:11:32-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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