TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gustaitis,Joseph Alan
TI  - Chicago's greatest year, 1893: the White City and the birth of a modern metropolis 
SN  - 9780809332496
AV  - F548 .C453 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Social change
KW  - Civic improvement
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The White City and the Gray City --; Three Museums and a Library --; Sears, Roebuck and Company --; Frances Willard's Bicycle --; Open Heart Surgery --; A Church for Father Tolton --; The Illinois Institute of Technology --; The Birth of Urban Literature --; The West Side Grounds --; The Chicago Hot Dog --; Wrigley's Gum --; The Chicago School of Architecture --; Reforming Chicago --; Epidemics and Clean Water --; Epilogue: Chicago's Next Great Year; 2; b
N2  - In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World's Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the fair's 633 acres lay a modern metropolis that rivaled the world's greatest cities. The Columbian Exposition marked Chicago's arrival on the world stage, but even without the splendor of the fair, 1893 would still have been Chicago's greatest year. An almost endless list of achievements took plac
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