Apr. 28-July 9, 2021: “ReIMAGINE Aunt Jemima” exhibit (Chicago)

A new exhibit in Chicago explores an advertising campaign launched at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and only recently ended. ReIMAGINE Aunt Jemima is on display in the lobby of the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library (9525 S Halsted Street in Chicago) from April 28 to July 9, 2021. ReIMAGINE Aunt Jemima on display at the Carter G. Woodson Regional Library in Chicago. The exhibit centers on the Chicagoans and "living trademarks" Nancy Green and Edith Wilson, [...]

By |2021-08-08T09:45:55-05:00April 28th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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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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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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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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Mar. 3, 2021: Columbian Exposition Museum Auction

Hundreds of items relating to Christopher Columbus and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago will hit the auction block on March 3, 2021. The collectibles come from the Christopher Columbus Museum in Columbus, Wisconsin, and include 1893 World's Fair books, tickets, stereoview cards, souvenir coins and ribbons, and an amazing one-of-a-kind, hand-made mechanical model of the Ferris Wheel. The sale will be conducted by Beloit Auction and Realty at 534 W. Grand Avenue in Beloit, WI. An online [...]

By |2021-04-04T05:45:42-05:00February 24th, 2021|Categories: ANTIQUES, EVENTS (past)|0 Comments
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Mar. 2, 2021: World’s Fair Auction #38 closes

Columbian Exposition collectors may be interested in World’s Fair Auction #38, now open for preview. Online bidding closes at 10:00 PM EST on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The auction catalog can be viewed at: http://www.worldsfairauction.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi. Lots 20 through 92 are items related to the 1893 World’s Fair, and include several products commemorating various building of the White City: a "World's Fair 1893" turquoise art glass creamer, an Agricultural Building china vase, and a Machinery Hall china plate; Machinery Hall cuff [...]

By |2021-04-04T05:46:06-05:00February 19th, 2021|Categories: ANTIQUES, EVENTS (past)|Tags: |2 Comments
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Mar. 11, 2021: “World’s Fair Archaeology in Jackson Park” (online)

The Chicago Public Library is hosting a presentation about “World's Fair Archaeology in Jackson Park" on March 11, 2021. Rebecca Graff, associate professor of anthropology at Lake Forest College (IL), will discuss her new book Disposing of Modernity and her archaeological digs at the site of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park.  This free event takes place online using Zoom from 2-3 PM. Register at least 24 hours before the event at https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/60185f0022fe7d24006eec07 The Ohio State Building, [...]

By |2023-04-09T09:00:10-05:00February 11th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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Jan. 18, 2021: “Black History and Arts in Chicago” (Hyde Park Book Club online)

The Hyde Park Book Club of the Hyde Park Historical Society will host an online discussion of books relating to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition at their next meeting honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Monday, January 18, 2021, at 7:30 PM the Club will offer "Black History and Arts in Chicago with Richard Courage and Christopher Robert Reed" and discuss “All the World is Here!” The Black Presence at White City by Christopher Robert Reed, Roots of [...]

By |2022-03-05T11:00:18-06:00January 15th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past)|0 Comments
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Dec. 19, 2020: Chicago History Book Club discusses the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (online)

DATE CHANGE 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 [...]

By |2023-01-12T20:31:20-06:00December 5th, 2020|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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