The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 1 to October 30, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus'
Chicago World's Columbian Exposition and The Republic statue and administration building in 1893
An advertisement for the Exposition, depicting a portrait of Christopher Columbus
Thomas Moran – Chicago World's Fair – Brooklyn Museum painting of the Administration Building
The regional vote breakdown of the eighth World's Fair location selection ballot in the United States House of Representatives
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago. Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by
World's Columbian Exposition
…October 30, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that Columbus took to the New World. Chicago won the right to host the fair over several competing…
The Museum of Science and Industry overlooking the Columbia Basin in Jackson Park
Initial approved site plan for the World's Columbian Exposition, designed in late-1890 by Olmsted, Daniel Burnham, Henry Sargent Codman, and John Wellborn Root
The Statue of The Republic in Jackson Park, a one-third sized replica of Daniel Chester French's The Republic