The Assassination Of The 1964 World's Fair

Daniel Burnham and John Root’s project of the Chicago World’s Fair convinces the reader that the project was tremendously rushed. Burnham and Root faced a lot of complications and dilemmas. Starting with the time constraint when the Fair needed to be finished. “If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair. Somehow he needed to rouse the engineers of America.” (155) Burnham was given ___ years until the opening date May 1, 1893. This project had to be done swiftly and still galvanize America, and more importantly the world. With this difficulty that Burnham had to confront, he also had to confront his architectural team about their artistic views and how they could comprise on an unambiguous theme for the Fair. Certainly with the time limitations Burnham and his team of employees faced, some obstacles would occur with the treatment of his workers. Burnham had to open the fair in two weeks, it was mid-April, “ the weather was gorgeous, but other cruelties abounded. Four exposition workers lost their lives, two from fractured skulls, two electrocuted. The

     The Fair, with its mix of East and West and everything in between, became a microcosm of the country that was building it. In it, you see all the conflicts that were going on in the country at the time. Probably the most obvious is the labor that built the fair. At this point in history, the working class of the country, and indeed the world, were slowly, but unstoppably moving toward unionization, fairer working conditions and change that is very much the same as the working class of today. You also saw the unchecked, without government regulated capitalism, and the very strong personalities of the men who ran the fair. In my opinion, it was the personalities of the leaders of the fair, as much as anything, that resulted in its amazing pace and scale of construction being pulled off. Burnham is a

2. “No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapidation. There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished.” (pg 59) This quote shows just how important the fair was to the dreary city of Chicago. It seems that everyone was putting their faith and every scrap of love into the fair. Everyone wanted it to turn out perfect, everyone thought it was going to rock the world, and it did, just not in the way people hoped. Once

During the year of 1893, times in Chicago were rough. The economy was failing and there were many union strikes. There was a significant global economic decline which affected a young and growing America tremendously. When compared with other metropolitan cities like New York, Chicago was seen as the Wild West and it didn’t have a good reputation. It was difficult to find jobs and the working conditions as well as the pay were poor. In 1890, Chicago would win the bid for hosting the world fair. This would put a lot of pressure on Chicago due to the fact that no one believed the Paris Fair, along with the Eiffel Tower, could be outdone. However, with the introduction of the Ferris Wheel the world was shocked. The fair changed the world’s perception

Larson uses figurative language to compare the exposition to a “hurricane.” The use of a metaphor to explain the similarities between how immense and deranged the fair has become to a natural disaster that literally destroys everything in its path shows just how important and extravagant this event is for the town of Chicago and the United States as a whole. Readers get insight into how overwhelming and chaotic the making of the World’s Fair is especially for the people directly involved. Readers acquire a feel for how a seemingly amazing event can have an exhausting and draining impact on the people who have to put it together. The World’s fair presents a challenge

Although the Chicago World's fair of 1893 only lasted 6 months, I had an enormous impact on the city of Chicago, its people, and indeed the entire country. Up until that point in its history, the US had done nothing on the scale of the world's fair, and was regarded as a country of barbarians and cowboys by much of the world, especially Old Europe. The fair

The Great Fair of 1893 was held as a major achievement for its time. Huge buildings, impossible feats of engineering, a mixing of cultures, and the use of many new technologies were major aspects of its success. However, even though the builders of the fair worked against impossible odds, they required a leader, a figurehead to lead the way to success. In his book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Erik Larson’s portrays Burnham’s obsession with grandeur as a key part of his persona to emphasize why he was the right man for the job.

The thought of Chicago hosting the world’s fair would be daunting at first, but it could turn around the reputation of Chicago from one of a city of gloom and darkness, to one of a city of light and progress from the Great Chicago fire of 1871, and that city would be fascinating for years to come. Chicago would get an economic shot in the arm from the revenue that it would get from hosting the 1893 World Fair and it would make Chicago into a great city of America. The event and also the transformation that would happen to the city of Chicago would not have happened if it would not be for one great man who had taken up the challenge to make sure to host this 1893 World fair.

Hundreds of people crowded the streets of Chicago in late October of 1892, eager to hear the official announcement of where the World's Fair would be held. Although other nicer looking and cleaner cities were up for consideration when it came to where the fair would be held, the passion and excitement that surrounded Chicago’s local residents was enough to convince representatives of the fair to pick Chicago to host the remarkable event that would forever change America. The Chicago World's Fair had an astounding impact on Americans, both from Chicago and in other parts of the country as well. The exhibition showed many that times were changing and the country was on the verge of revolution in a variety of fashions. In essence, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair set new industrial, military, and economic standards that would serve as vital roles in America’s passage into the twentieth century.

Given the nickname the "White City" because of its elegant and pristine buildings, the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 was one of the most powerful events in American history. There were long lasting impacts on American culture, economy, and technology- the fair brought new advancements in virtually every aspect of daily life. It was held “to commemorate Columbus’s discovery of the New World” (Larson 15). The fair was a symbol of the expertise America possessed, but simultaneously highlighted the hardships that surrounded it. The fair increased wages, marketed more products for public use, and produced architectural feats that challenged the ones that stood at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. There was much more to the fair behind the showstopping displays that it created. Behind the exotic Algerian belly dancers and astonishing replicas of famous cities, the corporate world was establishing its dominance. Labor unions struggled to fight for fair wages and working time. Although disturbances and disagreements in the construction of the fair foreshadowed a negative ending, breakthroughs such as white lead paint and the Ferris Wheel attracted many visitors. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 is a vivid exhibit of the independent cultural, economical, and technological superpower that America would grow to become in the future.

The 1893 Chicago, Illinois World’s Fair, also known as the Columbian Exposition, was an extended celebration in memory of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America. The World’s Fair was a major milestone in  history because it gave insight to what Americans could  accomplish in the future, when pushed to their full extent. It came with many firsts, allowing Americans to take part in, and experience things that were, at the time, unheard of to humans. It greatly accelerated the urbanization of America. Although at the time it was just a celebration, the six-month sensation had a far greater significance. The influence it had on American society in the coming years had been far greater than anyone could have imagined, as well as the role it played in the American Gilded Age, and the debatable topic it devised, concerning whether the World’s Fair was viewed as a “white city,” “black city,” or both. The World’s Fair changed American society in more ways than not. For instance, everyone doubted them. They did not think that Americans had what it took to successfully construct and manage the fair, let alone outdo the Eiffel Tower, (built for the 1889 Paris Exposition) but in constructing the Ferris Wheel, they accomplished just that. This widely changed the perception of Chicago, and America as well. The World’s Fair had transformed Chicago from a nothing town, to one of the main points of interest in America. The fair’s sanitary conditions set an

Who could have seen that a young Texas boy growing up in poverty would write and record a song heard by millions of music lovers throughout the world? “Sugartime” has been covered by hundreds of artists worldwide and has been performed by churches, commercials, plays, musicals and purely loving individuals recapturing a simpler time in music history. There are currently dozens if not hundreds of renditions of “Sugartime” posted on the World Wide Web easily viewed on YouTube. Some are brilliant and others are comical. Charlie finds many of these versions exciting, as he’s happy to see so many people, especially young folks, taking an interest in his song decades after the original was released.

Larson states that the fair gave Chicago a good thing, hope, to fend off the dark, or evil, of the economic crisis that was hitting America. The United States uses the World Fair as a great hope that as long as the fair lasted nothing could go wrong; Americans hoped that the fair would bring prosper and joy to the United States so that it could fend off any bad thing that was bound to happen, like an economic crisis. Next, Larson’s support for daylight versus darkness is mainly explained with the fair. Larson talks about the days of the fair, and how extravagant to nights at the fair

In 1893, Chicago had the pleasure of hosting the World’s Fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. In the novel “The Devil In The White City”, written by Erik Larson, tells the story of two different men who had an impact on the World’s Fair. Both men impacted the reputation of the fair and of Chicago with their actions and accomplishments.

A Question I have is: The World's Fair was so big in this story and there were a lot of the american population there, why have I never heard of this before? Also it sounds almost as big as the olympics how comparable is that?