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2. White City (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   White City (sometimes listed as White City Amusement Park in print advertisements) was a recreational area located in the Greater Grand Crossing and Woodlawn community areas on the south side of Chicago from 1905 until the 1950s. [1] At the time of its opening, on May 26, 1905, it was claimed to be the largest park of its type in the United ...

3. White City (amusement parks) - Wikipedia

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   White City of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893). The enormously successful 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago attracted 26 million visitors and featured a section that is now commonly considered the first amusement park: a midway (the mile-long Midway Plaisance), the world's first Ferris wheel (constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.), a forerunner of the modern roller ...

4. List of defunct amusement parks in the United States

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   Amusement park City Years of operation Notes Ref. Canyon Land Park Fort Payne: 1970–1973 [2] Lake City Amusement Park Guntersville: 2016–2016 Operated for two months. [3] Southern Adventures: Huntsville: 1998–2018 [4] Space City USA: Huntsville: 1964–1964 Abandoned prior to completion [5] Styx River Water World Loxley: 1945–2020

5. Category:Defunct amusement parks in Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Kiddieland Amusement Park; L. Luna Park, Chicago; O. Old Chicago; R. ... White City (Chicago) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 09:02 (UTC). ...

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   After completing the Winchester-Hood and Lunt-Lake Apartments on the North Side, Holsman began work on the similarly designed Parkway Gardens as a return to the South Side African-American community. The complex replaced the White City Amusement Park, which had operated at the site since 1905. Holsman's firm went bankrupt before the complex ...

7. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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   White City. Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the neoclassical architecture style. The area at the Court of Honor was known as The White City. Façades were made not of stone, but of a mixture of plaster, cement, and jute fiber called staff, which was painted white, giving the buildings their "gleam". Architecture critics ...

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9. White City - Wikipedia

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   The White City, an "ideal city" constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois; White City (Indianapolis), an amusement in Indiana, 1906–1908; White City (New Orleans), an amusement park in Louisiana, 1907–1913; White City (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts), an amusement park, 1905–1960; White City (Philadelphia), an ...