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

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. [...]

By |2024-01-28T12:05:19-06:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |2 Comments
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Aug. 9, 2018: A World of Innovation Exploring the Inventions and Engineering of the 1893 World’s Fair

The Chicago Engineers' Foundation (CEF) is hosting a Columbian Exposition event titled A World of Innovation: Exploring the Inventions and Engineering of the 1893 World's Fair on Thursday, August 9, 2018 from 12-1:30 PM at the Union League Club of Chicago. With a mission to encourage and empower the next generation of engineers, the CEF is one of the three foundations with a home at the Union League Club. A World of Innovation is part of a series of [...]

By |2023-11-04T19:07:31-05:00July 21st, 2018|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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April 10-14, 2018: Food of the Fair Week at the Union League Club of Chicago

Members of the storied Union League Club of Chicago (ULCC) will be celebrating the 125th anniversary of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition with “Food of the Fair” week from April 10-14, 2018. Chef de cuisine Doug D’Avico will take diners in the Club’s Wigwam restaurant “on a culinary journey through the World’s Fair of 1893,” creating a three-course dinner of foods from the Columbian Exposition “with a ULCC twist.” What fair foods might the chef offer? Aunt Jemima pancakes, Quaker [...]

By |2018-04-22T15:25:29-05:00April 2nd, 2018|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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March 8, 2018: Union League Club of Chicago lecture on “The Columbian Exposition”

The Union League Club of Chicago (ULCC) is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the 1893 World's Fair with a presentation by Greg Cook titled "The World's Columbian Exposition and its Transformation of Chicago Architecture" on Thursday, March 8 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Union League Club (65 Jackson Boulevard in Chicago). The Union League Club of Chicago. [Image from https://www.facebook.com/ULCChicago/] A cocktail reception with a cash bar and light appetizers will start at 5:30 pm and feature a display of the Union [...]

By |2024-04-22T08:53:43-05:00February 17th, 2018|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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