Not much is left of the massive buildings built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Despite a rocky start, the event became ...

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 ...

This week, Paul goes behind the curtain with full spectrum content producer Michael Finney who explores music, audio, video, photography and writing over his career and is recently integrated in a ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the ...

In November 1893, the journalist Kate Field asked what should be done with the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition, the great majority of which were built as temporary structures. “Apply the ...

China is a city on the rise, but it faces serious challenges as it prepares to host the next World's Fair. Vast numbers of migrants are moving in. Infrastructure is outdated and workers are protesting ...

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama won’t be the first to build something on the future site of the Obama presidential library. A sizable portion of the Obama Presidential Center, as ...

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 ...