Chicago’s Popular 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

(via History Things)  In 1893, Chicago held a world’s fair called the World’s Columbian Exposition. The purpose was to celebrate Christopher Columbus’s arrival in The New World 400 years before in 1492. Beginning on May 1, 1893, the fair attracted over 27 million visitors until it closed on October 30. The fair was home to George Ferris’s new Ferris Wheel and many other new inventions.