In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago ... cars, each capable of holding 60 people. More than 100,000 parts went into Ferris ...

has bars in some of its enclosed cars. 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 ...

George Pullman provided relief with his Palace Cars, which he marketed ... to seeing only the box scores. The Ferris wheel debuted at at Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Ferris constructed the world's first Ferris wheel for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago ... for a wild ride in its swinging cars (as well as stationary ones) along Brooklyn's ...