The Devil in the White City

By NickEverette

  • Daniel Hudson Burnham was born.

    He was born in Henderson, New York

  • John Wellborn Root is born.

    He was born in Lumpkin Georgia

  • Burnham's family moved to Chicago

  • Burnham fails entrance exams to Harvard and Yale

  • Period: to

    Burnham spent the next years doing all sorts of jobs around the country.

  • Great Fire of 1871

  • Burnham's father introduced him to an architect named Peter Wight

  • Burnham & Root became partners and started making profit.

  • John B. Sherman Commissioned Burnham and Root to build him a mansion

  • Daniel Burnham and Margaret Sherman Married.

  • Mudgett (Holmes) married Clara Loverling

  • Root married Mary Walker.

  • Mary Walker Root died of tuberculosis

  • Period: to

    Chicago grew very fast and land values higher than anyone could have imagined

  • Root married Dora Monroe

  • Peter Brooks III commisioned Burnham & Root to build the first skyscraper

  • Mudgett (Holmes) enrolled in medical school

  • Holmes (Mudget) married Myrta Belknap

  • Holmes bought the land that his murder castle would stand on

  • Period: to

    Jack the Rippers Muder Spree

  • The Paris Exposition

  • Mayor calls for committe.

    The committe consisted of chicago's more prominent men to get the colombian exposition.

  • Chicago becomes second largest city in U.S.

  • Chicago was given the Colombian Exposition

  • The Exposition company formally hired Olmstead

  • An economic recession in the U.S. jeopordized the fair.

  • The Exposition company commissioned the main architects for the fair

    The Committee on Grounds and Buildings paid each architect $10,000. Equal to $300,000 today.

  • Carter Henry Harrison lost the mayor election.

  • The great eastern architects traveled to Jackson Park to see the site for the fair.

  • Ned Conner started working for Holmes

  • John Root died of pneumonia.

  • Construcion for the fair began.

  • The building designs for the fair were revealed.

  • Period: to

    800 Violent Deaths in chicago

  • Olstead sailed to England for a vacation from the fair

  • A Windstorm destroyed part of the Illinois state building.

  • A storm destroyed part of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building

  • A storm destroyed much of the manufactures and liberal arts building

  • Burnham was named Director of works, in charge of everything.

  • Dedication day for the Colobian exposition

    was also the 400th anniversary of colombus's sighting of the new world.

  • The Exposition approved George Ferris's Wheel to be built.

  • Holmes gave Chappel the body of Emiline Cigrand for articulation

  • Harry Codman died after an appendicitis surgery.

  • Colonel Cody opened his show.

  • Unemployed men filled the streets of Chicago

  • Opening day for the Colombian Exposition

  • Only 10,000 people came to the exposition

  • Chicago's chemical nation bank closed

  • Another large chicago bank failed

  • The Evanston national bank failed

  • Ferris's wheel was completed

  • Another large Chicago bank failed, Lazarus Silverman

  • The great Midway ball took place.

  • Chicago day at the fair brought in 751,026 people

  • Mayor Harrison was assassinated by Patrick Prendergast.

  • Memorial service for Harrison and closing ceremony for the fair.

  • Several thousand workers went on strike against the Pullman company

  • Arsonists set fire to the seven greatest palaces of the exposition

  • Patrick Prendergast was given the death penalty and died of hanging

  • Holmes and party checked into a hotel in Cincinnati

  • Holmes and party arrived at another hotel in Cincinnati

  • Holmes and party left Cincinnati and arrived in Indianapolis, they checked into another hotel

  • Holmes and the children checked out of the hotel

  • etective Geyer began his search for the Pitezel children

  • Detective Geyer arrived at Cincinnati

  • Detective Geyer went to Toronto

  • Detective Geyer found the remains of Alice and Nellie Pitezel in Toronto

  • Chicago detectives found human remains in Holmes Castle

  • Detective Geyer was on his way to Cincinnati

  • A Philadelphia grand jury chose to indict Holmes for murdering Ben Pitezel

  • An Indianapolis grand jury chose to indict holmes for murdering Howard Pitezel

  • A jury in Toronto Chose to indict Holmes for murdering Alice and Nellie Pitezel

  • Holmes stood trial for the murder of Benjamin Pitezel

  • Harriet Monroe published a boigoraphy about Root

  • Holmes was given the death penalty and died of hanging

  • George Ferris died of typhoid fever

  • Fredrick Law Olmstead died in an Asylum

  • RMS Titanic sank

  • Frances Millet died abord the Titanic.

  • Daniel Burnham died.

  • William Fredrick Cody died

  • Margaret Burnham died.

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