The Eastern States Exposition has announced the winners of its annual Gold Medal Cheese Competition, recognizing some of New ...

The Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1906. Library of Congress. Plans for an international exhibition to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal were first discussed in 1904 — a decade ...

Chicago has played host to many expositions in the city’s history — perhaps most notably to the Columbian Exposition, often called the World’s Fair of 1893. In what is now known as Jackson Park, the ...

The typewriter on display at the Centennial Exposition wasn't nearly as popular with the judges or the public as Bell's telephone. It resembled a sewing machine and featured a QWERTY keyboard that ...

Paris' 1889 Exposition Universelle commemorated the 100th anniversary of the start of the French Revolution. Best known for introducing the Eiffel Tower, it was the fourth Exposition held in Paris, ...

In 1887 the legislature of Ohio passed a resolution that ". . . the one hundredth anniversary of the 1st settlement of the North West Territory and the State of Ohio should be appropriately observed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Carl Sandburg called the city “Hog butcher for the world” — and was awarded a $200 prize — for his 1914 poem “Chicago.” For stock men and women, cowboys, ...

The Grand Plaza in front of the Administration Building, seen on Chicago Day, Oct. 9, 1893, the twenty-second anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The Administration Building was a ...