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...
Last time we were at the Chicago World’s Fair we toured the area in the red rectangle. This time we’re going to head north away from the Grand Basin. Since we’re already familiar with the top of the Liberal Arts Building, let’s go back up there...
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...
The American psyche is prone to fits of paranoia and hysteria about our collective status in the world. Less than a decade into the massification of the internet, a feat brought about in no small part by American technology and genius, we are being inundated with...
A reader writes: Brian, I don’t disagree with your analysis, and I don’t have any information to back me up on this, but I think the one thing that has Americans most concerned about the current state of education in this country is that I suspect our...
