The World's Columbian Exposition established a Neo-Classical revival in Chicago and across America. Although the Court of Honor influenced American architecture for decades to come, most visitors ...

Chicagoans and tourists alike have fallen under the spell of Jackson Park’s cherry trees, which are in full blossom for the ...

Chicago welcomed the very first Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and its own giant wheel recently got a makeover, replacing small red boxes with enclosed pods just before ...

Pabst is releasing Pabst Light, the first new light beer in over 40 years. Miller Lite was released in 1975, followed by Coors Light in 1978 and Budweiser Light in 1982.

Eiffel himself proposed an idea: a bigger tower. Merci, mais non. As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago took shape, there was a void where its exclamation point was meant to ...

Olesen said the longship was constructed in 1892 and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1893 for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. “Since 1996, that artifact has been here in ...

The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893. Strolling along, one could admire the belly dancing of Fahreda ...