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Illinois was a detailed, full-scale mockup of an Indiana-class coastal defense battleship, constructed as a naval exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1893. It was built alongside a pier of stuccoed brick atop wood pilings, with a stucco covered wood-framed superstructure, and outfitted with ...
On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a world record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 751,026 people. The debt for the fair was soon paid off with a check for $1.5 million (equivalent to $50.9 million in 2023). [4] Chicago has commemorated the fair with one of the stars on its municipal flag. [5]
In 2007, Landmarks Illinois listed the ship as one of the 10 most endangered landmarks in Illinois. [9] In 2008, Preservation Partners of the Fox Valley was recognized by Landmarks Illinois and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation for fund raising efforts resulting in stabilization of the ship.
Gangsters and ogres inhabit the 5,400-passenger Allure of the Seas, the newest, largest ship in the world. The giant floating resort is a sister ship to last year's highly publicized 225,282-ton ...
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois nonprofit corporation in January 1928 for the purpose of planning and hosting a World's Fair in Chicago in 1934. City officials designated three and a half miles of newly reclaimed land along the shore of Lake Michigan between 12th and 39th streets on the Near South Side for the fairgrounds. [ 4 ]
57th Street Art Fair, Hyde Park, June; Chicago Art Book Fair, November [1] Chicago Artists Month, September/October [2] Gold Coast Art Fair, Grant Park, June [3] Manifest, Columbia College Chicago, May; SOFA Chicago, Navy Pier, October/November [4] Wells Street Art Festival, Old Town, June [5]
Chicago, Illinois Edward Lamson Henry: The County Fair: Oil on canvas 1891 The Wedding Day (A Virginia Wedding) Oil on canvas 1890 Before the Days of Rapid Transit [108] Watercolor Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York Albert Herter: Portrait of Mrs. H. (Adele Herter) Oil on canvas The Great Mystery: Watercolor George W. Hitchcock ...