Griffin MSI lets online visitors experience 1893 World's Fair — and more The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection.

Though the art and architecture of the fair were mostly destroyed, as was intended, its curious cultural legacy was not.

Have you ever noticed a pagoda in Riverside Park and wondered what it’s doing there? Three groups are now trying to save it ...

The Making of an Icon” is a fascinating and pretty entertaining new coffee table book devoted to this terra cotta mainstay.

Smokestacks rose where farm fields once stretched. Production lines started churning out chocolate bars in 1905. The ...

Explore America’s grandest historic homes where legendary wealth once shaped their walls step inside the architecture and ...

Step inside historic brick mansions built by America’s famed wealthy families, showcasing grand architecture, lavish details, ...

The film features a report by Lowell Thomas on the preparations for the 1964 New York World's Fair, highlighting the construction of the Unisphere and various exhibits. It emphasizes the fair's scale, ...

The World's Fair has led to many timeless advancements over the years, including in the culinary world. While some stick around, this popular drink didn't.

Anthropology in a changing America : interpreting the Chicago "triumph" of Frank Hamilton Cushing / David R. Wilcox -- A visual interlude : popular images of anthropology and its subjects at the fair ...

Walbridge, ARCO Construction Companies, Barton Malow Holdings, Clayco, The Yates Companies, and Gray top Building Design+Construction's ranking of the nation's largest industrial ...

Structurally, the Wrigley is a typical steel-frame Chicago high-rise of its period, with fifty caissons encased in concrete ...