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Oct. 8, 2021: “City on Fire” opens at the Chicago History Museum
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Oct. 8, 2021: “City on Fire” opens at the Chicago History Museum

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Oct. 8, 2021: “City on Fire” opens at the Chicago History Museum

By Scott|2022-08-11T15:27:02-05:00October 16th, 2021|Categories: EVENTS (past), EXHIBITS (current)|Tags: Chicago Day, Chicago History Museum|

Embers of the Great Chicago Fire continue to smolder. Stories of tragedy and triumph from October 8–10, 1871, and the years of rebuilding that followed have been cause for somber remembrance and jubilant celebration throughout the years, including at “Chicago Day” held at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Fire, the Chicago History Museum has opened a new permanent exhibit, “City on Fire: Chicago 1871." Several displays and artifacts connected to the 1893 [...]

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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair
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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair

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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-12-09T11:20:09-06:00August 28th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Court of Honor, Daniel Chester French, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Grand Basin, Statue of the Republic|

They toppled the Republic at dawn on August 28, 1896. As the first rays of the sun spread across Lake Michigan and into Jackson Park, a funeral pyre lit inside the colossus began to spread up the structure. A flash of light soon appeared in her raised left arm. On a pedestal in the lagoon, the ghostly goddess stood with impassive dignity as muffled cracking within her heralded impending doom. A halo of yellow light formed about her head, [...]

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

By Scott|2024-01-28T12:05:19-06:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Buffalo Bill, Carter Harrison, Columbian Liberty Bell, Eugene Field, Ferd Peck, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Harry G. Selfridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Philip Armour, Union League Club of Chicago|

Continued from Part 1 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1880. “I come to see the American side of the Fair” On September 10, 1893, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his wife Jeanne-Émilie arrived in Chicago and settled into the Hotel Metropole. This hotel stood on Michigan Avenue at 23rd Street, just south of the tony Prairie Avenue District called home by many of Chicago’s elite citizens, including Marshall Field, George Pullman, Ferdinand ("Ferd") W. Peck, and John Jacob Glessner. [...]

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 1
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 1

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 1

By Scott|2024-10-22T14:28:10-05:00July 5th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Frederick Law Olmsted, George Post, Maillard's Chocolates, Richard Hunt|

“My only ambition has been to engrave my name at the feet of great men and in the service of grand ideas.” —Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1880. Most monographs about Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi conclude his story with the 1886 unveiling ceremony for his Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. A lesser-known chapter in the French sculptor’s life involves his next and final trip to the United States in 1893, a six-week visit from [...]

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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor
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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor

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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:11:32-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Court of Honor, Diana, electric fountains, gondolas, illumination, MacMonnies Fountain, Obelisk, Statue of the Republic|

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 [...]

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“American Gods” at the 1893 World’s Fair
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“American Gods” at the 1893 World’s Fair

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“American Gods” at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:12:43-05:00February 25th, 2021|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|

“In the summer of 1893 on the shores of Lake Michigan, the United States took its place on the global stage, not through war but through technological innovation ….” The television series American Gods paid a short visit to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago during Season 3, Episode 5 (“Sister Rising”). The episode opens with an action shot of an elongated coin machine—an unusual but effective historical reference to one of so many “firsts” exhibited at the World’s [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 12: The Infanta
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 12: The Infanta

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 12: The Infanta

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:26-05:00November 21st, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Princess Eulalia|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 11 The Infanta of Spain was entertained by the World's Fair officials to-day, June 8, 1893, and we were fortunate in viewing the pageant from a good stand point.[1] It was a perfect day, cool and bright, and smiled on unclouded to its close. We secured some of the handy little camp chairs that are rented on the ground, and entering the south door of [...]

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”
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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”

By Scott|2024-05-17T09:18:34-05:00October 11th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Auditorium, Charles Dana, Chicago Athletic Association, New York, Rookery Building|

The May 29, 1892, issue of New York Sun contained a nearly full-page invective titled “Chicago As Chicago Is.” Although the piece was signed "THE PICADOR," news outlets attributed this diatribe directly to the Sun’s editor and owner, Charles Dana. Having rebounded from the Great Fire of 1871, the Windy City easily extinguished his malicious editorial roast.

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 1. “This is Chicago!”
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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 1. “This is Chicago!”

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 1. “This is Chicago!”

By Scott|2024-05-17T09:21:35-05:00October 9th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Dana, New York|

The May 29, 1892, issue of New York Sun contained a nearly full-page invective titled “Chicago As Chicago Is.” Although the piece was signed "THE PICADOR," news outlets attributed this diatribe directly to the Sun’s editor and owner, Charles Dana. Having rebounded from the Great Fire of 1871, the Windy City easily extinguished his malicious editorial roast.

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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair
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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair

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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-01-15T07:42:58-06:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Agricultural Building, Aunt Jemima, Nancy Green, Thomas Edison|

Though relatively unknown at the time, one participant in the 1893 World’s Fair later became a famous fixture of food advertising and a part of many people’s kitchens for more than a century. For the past ninety-seven years, the final resting place of the real woman behind the character was an unmarked plot of grass in a cemetery on Chicago’s South Side. A sign welcoming guests to the September 5, 2020, headstone ceremony for Nancy Green. On [...]

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