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  2. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The location of the fair was decided through several rounds of voting by the United States House of Representatives. The first ballot showed Chicago with a large lead over New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., but short of a majority. Chicago broke the 154-vote majority threshold on the eighth ballot, receiving 157 votes to New York's 107. [11]

  3. Baird Center - Wikipedia

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    The expansion roughly doubled the venue's square footage by adding 111,000 square feet (10,300 m 2) of exhibition space and 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2) of overall space to a total of [4] The expansion is designed to enable the venue to hold two conventions simultaneously, with the convention center's new wing having its own separate ...

  4. For more than a century, Milwaukee marked Memorial Day ... - AOL

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    Discharged veterans of World War II form a new unit in Milwaukee's Memorial Day parade as it passes the Milwaukee Public Library on May 30, 1945. ... The 2019 parade turned out to be the last ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Milwaukee

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    Home of Alexander Mitchell, Scottish immigrant, banker, and president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Begun by Mitchell in 1848, remodeled in 1859 to then-stylish Italianate style, then remodeled again to Second Empire style in 1876, designed by E. Townsend Mix. Bought by the Deutscher Club, renamed the Wisconsin Club around WWI.

  6. Meigs Field - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's first airplane flight took place in 1910 in Grant Park, adjacent to Northerly Island, with an international aeronautical exhibition at the same location in 1911. Then, in 1918, regular air mail service to Grant Park began. Nonetheless, Grant Park was unsuitable for the city's growing aviation needs. Burnham died in 1912.

  7. The Fair Store - Wikipedia

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    Under its management, branches were opened on Milwaukee Avenue (1929), in Oak Park, Illinois (1929), at the Evergreen Plaza Shopping Center (1952), and at the Old Orchard Shopping Center (1956). [ 3 ]

  8. Sky Ride - Wikipedia

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    The Sky Ride was an attraction built for the Century of Progress 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois.It was a transporter bridge (with a design similar to an aerial tramway or gondola lift) designed by the bridge engineering firm Robinson & Steinman that ferried people across the lagoon, Burnham Harbor, in the center of the fair.

  9. American Negro Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.

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