![]() Inspired by Burnham’s imagination and drive-not to mention that the committee was prepared to spend nearly one million dollars on music and two performance halls-Thomas accepted shortly after his new orchestra’s inaugural concerts on October 16 and 17, 1891, in the Auditorium Theatre. Soon after Theodore Thomas agreed to lead the new Chicago Orchestra, the exposition’s executive committee (many of whom were the same men who were helping to finance his new orchestra) offered him the job of director of music for the fair. And natives bragging about the fair likely contributed to the popularity of Chicago’s nickname as the “ Windy City.” Dr. Henry Howard Holmes) traveled to the fair with two of his eventual victims (later described by Erik Larson in his book The Devil in the White City). One visitor was poet and author Katharine Lee Bates, who would later include “Thine alabaster cities gleam” in her poem America the Beautiful. Following its blue ribbon–win as “America’s Best” at the exposition, the Pabst Brewing Company officially changed the name of its signature beer. ![]() ![]() Post Office–issued picture postcards and commemorative stamps and U.S. Mint–issued commemorative quarter and half-dollar coins. Juicy Fruit chewing gum, Cream of Wheat, Quaker Oats, Shredded Wheat, Aunt Jemima pancake mix, and the Ferris Wheel were introduced, along with the first U.S. Over the next six months, nearly fifty countries would exhibit and close to twenty-eight million people would visit. The fairgrounds stretched over nearly 700 acres in Jackson Park and officially opened to the public on May 1, 1893-125 years ago. Chicago World’s Fair 1893 by Harley Dewitt Nichols (1859–1939)
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