I’ve been in contact with the Brooklyn Museum over the course of the last week. They’ve been great and seem very interested in engaging the public to encourage us to interact with their collection. In that vein, using the same photos which I posted...
Most but not all of the notable graves at Graceland Cemetary are located in the far northeast corner, separated from the common folk by the lake and island on which the Burnham grave sits. In contrast to the Burnham grave’s natural ascetic, most of the rest of...
From Graceland Obviously, I’ve been writing a lot about Chicago recently. Taken a lot of pictures too. The other day I took a ride up to Graceland Cemetery. Graceland Cemetery has been the final resting place of Chicagoans since 1860. Carl Sandburg wrote a poem...
Not much remains of Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition. The site of the Columbian Exposition is on the right, now known as Jackson Park. The Museum of Science and Industry sits at the north end, the lagoon and Wooded Isle in the center of Jackson Park. The...
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. designed and built the original wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The Ferris Wheel was the Chicago expositions answer to the 1889 Paris exposition’s Eiffel Tower. The original Ferris Wheel consisted of 36...
The World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was largely designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. The...
