The Devil in the White City

  • Auditorium

    Auditorium

    Workers began building the Auditorium.
  • Fair

    Fair

    Chicago's mayor Dewitt C, Cregier, appointed 250 a committe of the most prominent men to build the fair in Chicago.
  • Holmes Building

    Holmes Building

    Chicago annexed Englewood and made a police precinct seven blocks from Holme's Pharmacy
  • Burnham's Trip

    Burnham's Trip

    Burnham goes to a trip to New York for the encounter of exposition odyssey.
  • Burnham's fee

    Burnham's fee

    Committe of Grounds and Buildings authorized Burnham to offer formal commissions to all ten architects and pay each $10,000
  • Reunion

    Burnham, Olmsted, Hunt, and the other architects gathered in the library on the top floor of the Rookery to present drawings of the fair's stucture to the committe of Grounds and Buildings.
  • Working

    Working

    The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction with less than 16 months until Dedication Day.
  • Letter From Burnham

    Letter From Burnham

    Burnham wrote to James Dredge to report he was under fire over the issue of structural integrity.
  • Access

    Access

    The committe granted a young pittsburgh engineer to build his structure in the Midway Plaisance.
  • Olmsted hospitalized

    Olmsted hospitalized

    a Blizzard bore down on Chicago.