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Happy National Ferris Wheel Day!

By |2018-03-11T10:14:17-05:00February 14th, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: , , , |

Up 'n' down Ferris wheel Tell me how does it feel To be so high Looking down here. -- Norah Jones "Carnival Town" Grab a box of chocolates and a bouquet of roses, because today is ... National Ferris Wheel Day! This annual celebration honors the anniversary of George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.’s birth on February 14, 1859, in Galesburg, Illinois. Ferris, of course, was the engineer who invented the biggest attraction of the 1893 World’s Fair. More than 1.4 [...]

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Fist City: a monumental beer

By |2022-12-04T09:23:50-06:00October 16th, 2017|Categories: NEWS, PRODUCTS|Tags: , , |

Move over PBR, there’s a new beer for 1893 World’s Fair enthusiasts. Fist City did not win a blue ribbon at the Columbian Exposition (hey, neither did Pabst!), because Revolution Brewing first released their pale ale in 2014. Initially offered only on tap at Big Star—a self-described “bourbon and beer-focused, taco-slinging, late-night honky-tonk in the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood”—Fist City’s popularity encouraged Revolution to offer this brew year-round, starting in April 2015, as six packs of 12-ounce cans [...]

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Links

By |2024-01-30T09:03:22-06:00October 14th, 2017|

Fair Friends 1893 World’s Fair enthusiasts should check out these great organizations, websites, and blogs 1893 World's Columbian Exposition Friends of the White City offers tours of Jackson Park and a website filled with fascinating information about the fair. World's Columbian Journal blog by Norman Bolotin, author of Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk around the World at the Columbian Exposition (2017) and The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 (1992). The Digital Research Library of Illinois [...]

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Video

By |2024-05-19T17:54:33-05:00October 11th, 2017|

Welcome to Zoopraxiscope Hall Come see flickering images about the 1893 World's Fair on the big and small screen DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT THE 1893 WORLD'S FAIR "Chicago: City of the Century Part 3" American Experience Season 5 (PBS, 2003). IMDB; Amazon EXPO - Magic of the White City (Inecom Entertainment Company, 2005). Amazon (DVD and streaming); NETFLIX Madness in the White City (National Geographic, 2007). IMDB "World's Fair Treasure Hunt" segment in Hidden Chicago with Geoffrey Baer (WTTW-11, 2014) Amazon [...]

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Research

By |2023-04-27T14:04:52-05:00October 11th, 2017|

The Columbian Exposition Research Library Non-fiction books and research articles about the 1893 World's Fair WELCOME TO THE RESEARCH LIBRARY Explore book reviews, announcements about new scholarly books and articles, and links to full online texts (coming soon). BOOKS ABOUT THE 1893 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION: a select bibliography Appelbaum, Stanley The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record. Dover, 1980. Amazon Appelbaum, Stanley Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair. Calla Editions, 2009. Amazon. Axe, [...]

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