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  Workers began building the Auditorium.
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  Chicago's mayor Dewitt C, Cregier, appointed 250 a committe of the most prominent men to build the fair in Chicago.
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  Chicago annexed Englewood and made a police precinct seven blocks from Holme's Pharmacy
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  Burnham goes to a trip to New York for the encounter of exposition odyssey.
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  Committe of Grounds and Buildings authorized Burnham to offer formal commissions to all ten architects and pay each $10,000
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  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.
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  The Mines Building was the first of the main exposition buildings to begin construction with less than 16 months until Dedication Day.
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  Burnham wrote to James Dredge to report he was under fire over the issue of structural integrity.
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  The committe granted a young pittsburgh engineer to build his structure in the Midway Plaisance.
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  a Blizzard bore down on Chicago.