Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 24, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event ...

This article was written by Martha Hayden and originally appeared on The Restless Viking website on January 28, 2025. Imagine. It’s 1893 and you embark upon “The White City,” Chicago’s World Fair.

The year is 1893. Chicago is hosting the world. At the World’s Columbian Exposition, over 65,000 exhibits are strewn over 630 acres of the Midway Plaisance and Jackson Park. Structures erected ...

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Introduction: The Chicago Fair and American anthropology in 1893 / Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox -- Essay 1. Anthropology as education and entertainment : Frederic Ward Putnam at the World's ...

Chicagoans didn’t have to travel far to find adventure 130 years ago this month — the world came to us. The party was so grand, we hosted it again 40 years later. The first World’s Fair here, the ...