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Burnham's family moved to Chicago
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The Devil in the White City TImeline
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Burnham fails entrance exams to Harvard and Yale
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Great Fire of 1871
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Burnham's father introduced him to an architect named Peter Wight
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Burnham & Root became partners and started making profit.
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John B. Sherman Commissioned Burnham and Root to build him a mansion
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Daniel Burnham and Margaret Sherman Married.
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Mudgett (Holmes) married Clara Loverling
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Root married Mary Walker.
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Mary Walker Root died of tuberculosis
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Root married Dora Monroe
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Peter Brooks III commisioned Burnham & Root to build the first skyscraper
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Mudgett (Holmes) enrolled in medical school
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Holmes (Mudget) married Myrta Belknap
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Holmes bought the land that he bought in front of his original store
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The Paris Exposition
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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.
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Chicago was given the Colombian Exposition
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The Exposition company formally hired Olmstead
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An economic recession in the U.S. jeopordized the fair.
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The Exposition company commissioned the main architects for the fair
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Carter Henry Harrison lost the mayor election.
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The great eastern architects traveled to Jackson Park to see the site for the fair.
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Ned Conner started working for Holmes
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John Root died of pneumonia.
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Construcion for the fair began.
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The building designs for the fair were revealed.