World's Columbian Exposition

world fair. This would put a lot of pressure on Chicago due to the fact that no one believed the Paris Fair, along with the Eiffel Tower, could be outdone. However, with the introduction of the Ferris Wheel the world was shocked. The fair changed the world’s perception

Aditya Krishna G. Richey Honors World History 4 December 2017 The Devil in the White City is a literary nonfiction novel that spans the years surrounding the building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as The World's Columbian Exposition, which was designed to commemorate the landing of Columbus in America. This nonlinear novel is divided into four parts with the first three parts of the novel primarily taking place in Chicago between the years 1890-1893. However, Part IV of the novel takes

Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction novel that spans the years surrounding the building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as The World's Columbian Exposition, recreates the lives of two real men, Daniel Burnham, the architect who builds the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims. In the book, Holmes is not simply another mindless criminal breaking the law for the reason of money; Holmes is a twisted, yet

Daniel H. Burnham, the Chief of Construction for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, challenged civil engineers of the United States to create a build that could compete with the Eiffel Tower. The creation had to be original, daring and unique. Ferris’s idea was a “revolving observation wheel.” The sketch

to prosper became America’s best architect. Holmes’ ambition took him to jail and eventually to his death. The novel The Devil in the White City, illustrates that everything is not what it seems using the character Holmes and the creation of the World’s Fair. Holmes was known as a charming doctor that starstruck every woman that he laid an eye upon. It was said by

uncover the myth of the so-called Little Egypt at the time of the Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1983, only to encounter even more interesting stories

In the book, The Devil in the White City, written by Erik Larson, he created the book in order to inform his audience about what had happened at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. He included the process of how the fair became the World's Fair and how it was built. However, he also describes the sick understory of Henry Holmes. Larson did so, so he could illustrate that the world was so blinded by the extravagance of the fair, therefore paid no attention to the serial killing that was happening only

the World’s Fair, gilded Chicago, a growing city dealing with sickness, death, fire, and man on man crime. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson goes in depth with both sides of this era in America. The story covers both Daniel H. Burnham, an architect with a major role in designing and managing the creation of the fair, and Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer that relayed on aliases and prayed on women and those most vulnerable in the up and coming city of Chicago. The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, more formally known as the Columbian Exposition, was a fair constructed to celebrate Columbus’ arrival in the New World. Chicago was known as the White City, but did not appear as pure and spotless as its name suggested. For instance, there were many ways one could get killed. “Fire took a dozen lives a day...There was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, influenza. And there was murder.” (Larson 12). These unstoppable causes of death was one of the reasons Chicago’s reputation

Webster Mudgett, common alias H. H. Holmes. At the Chicago World’s Fair, when the head architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham, attracted thousands of people to Chicago, hundreds of people went missing and nobody noticed. However, through historical records, letters, and documents, we know that Burnham’s intentions were good. In Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, Holmes and Burnham were polar opposites brought together by the Chicago World's Fair. Holmes represented evil while Burnham represented good