In 1933, Chicago hosted its second World’s Fair in 40 years to celebrate its centennial. It was titled “A Century of Progress ...

During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event. The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World’s Fair ...

The Elmhurst History Museum, 120 E. Park Ave., Elmhurst, debuts its new exhibition, “World of Tomorrow: A Century of Progress,” an examination of Chicago’s 1933-1934 World’s Fair, whose motto was ...

Could it possibly have been the transportation of tomorrow? ... An elevated train suspended from an iron rail and traveling along 4,000 feet of tracks throughout the 1964 World's Fair in New York. The ...

Artist and researcher Janna Añonuevo Langholz led the effort to establish a marker in Clayton, Missouri, where the 1904 World's Fair put nearly 1,200 Filipino and Indigenous people on display for fair ...

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Once the pinnacle of innovation, many World’s Fair wonders have been forgotten. What happened to these groundbreaking ...

At David Dinkins Circle in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the ground bears little evidence of the five tile mosaics that were recently removed. The Passarelle Plaza mosaics were installed in 1997 to ...