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 1893 World's Fair would end up drawing 20 million people to its Chicago showground. Two of them, sisters Minnie and Nannie Williams, came at the invitation of serial killer H. H. Holmes.

At the same 1893 World's Fair in Chicago that saw orange cider fervor take hold, Juicy Fruit gum and Vienna Beef kicked off their long lives too. So why are we still drinking iced tea and eating ...

In the 1890s, as Kansas City crept farther and farther from the riverfront, it began looking less and less like a small ...

One of its most significant contributions to commerce on the Great Lakes is its shipyard.In 1855, the first ship sailed into ...

The founder of Freedman Seating Co., headquartered on the West Side, exhibited its seats for horse-drawn carriages at the ...

[SPOILER ALERT] in which a serial killer in Chicago lures young women to gruesome deaths within a hastily and shadily constructed “Murder Castle” just blocks from the 1893 World’s Fair. It’s a great ...

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 ...