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The Whitechapel Club
Jack the Ripper/killer enthusiasts (pg. 31)
members were mainly journalists (pg. 31)
How the city is described
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"a human being with its skin removed" (Max Weber, pg. 11)
"nothing more than a greedy, hog-slaughtering, backwater" (eastern perception, pg. 13)
"All the city's wealth, however. had failed to shake the widespread perception that Chicago was a secondary city that preferred butchered hogs to Beethoven" (pg. 16)
"that Gordian city, so excessive, so satanic" (Octave Uzanne, pg. 28)
"a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point" (Paul Lindau, pg. 28)
"Chicago is like the man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve. The trouble is just begun." (Chauncey Depew, pg. 34)
"Having seen it, I desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages." (Rudyard Kipling, pg. 52)
Ideas of ideal buildings/cities
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"Other nations had mounted exhibitions of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no unifrom plan" (pg. 15) (Tribune's Paris correspondent)
Brooks not caring about the look of the Mauntauk as long as it was functional, frustrating Burnham and Root (pg. 24)
Sullivan complaining that he was an idealist and Burnham was a merchandiser (pg. 30)
Olmsted's view of landscape architecture being a formal art on its own (pg. 50)
"Both men [Hunt and Burnham] symbolized all that stood in the way of Sullivan's own emerging ethos that a building's function should express itself in its design" (pg. 105)
The World's Fair
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occured in 1893 (pg. 4)
officially titled the World's Columbian Exposition (pg. 4)
originally commemorated Columbus's discovery of America (pg. 4)
Burnham and Root were lead designers (pg. 33)
set in Jackson Park (pg. 54)
planned and completed far quicker than Fairs before it (pg. 76)
Board of Architects: Hunt (chairman), Sullivan (secretary), Peck(?), Post, McKim, Peabody, Brunt (pg. 105)
buildings had uniform heights to establish harmony between them (pg. 107)
used a police force focused on crime prevention rather than arresting after crimes were committed (pg. 138)
had a water sterilization plant to provide free, clean water for fairgoers (pg. 138)
main color scheme chosen for the fair was white, hence the nickname "the White City" (pg. 174)
contracts made for the fair became baselines for other unions - helped kickstart the US labor movement (pg. 224)
a quarter of a million people attended the fair's opening ceremony (pg. 239)
devices/concepts introduced at the fair included: Edison's Kinetoscope, the zipper, the electric kitchen, Aunt Jemima's pancake mix, Juicy Fruit, Cracker Jack, Shredded Wheat cereal, and the Dewey Decimal System (pg. 247-248)
a Retrenchment Committee was established to monitor extra spending of the fair (pg. 304), but the members of it resigned after they requested a bit too much power and were denied (pg. 309)
broke the record of most attendees at a peaceful event in history on Oct 9 with a total of 751,026 attendees (pg. 318-319)
the closing ceremony was cancelled and replaced with a memorial service for Harrison (pg. 331)
on July 5 of the following year, labor strikers set fire to seven of the exposition's since abandoned buildings (pg. 335)
Notable people
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Daniel Burnham
architect known throughout the world (pg. 3)
friend and business partner to Root (pg. 14)
a lead designer for the World's Fair (pg. 33)
got much work after the fair, becoming a pioneer of modern urban planning (pg. 374)
passed in 1912, 47 days after Millet's death (pg. 390)
Francis Millet
hired as the fair's director of color, leading "the Whitewash Gang" (pg. 174)
painter (pg. 4)
hired as director of functions (pg. 241) and therefore planned many events for the fair such as boat races, swim meets, and the Midway ball (pg. 311)
passed away in the Titanic disaster (pg. 390)
John Root
friend and business partner to Burnham (pg. 14)
a lead designer for the World's Fair (pg. 33)
passed away blah blah blah
Louis Sullivan and Ferdinand W. Peck
architecture partners (pg. 30)
competing firm to Burnham and Root, with plenty of tension (pg. 30
Adler quit the firm some time after the fair and Sullivan struggled to make money from then on (pg. 375)
Frederick Law Olmstead
landscape architect (pg. 50)
main designer of the Fair's landscape (pg. 53)
had a long battle wit dementia after the fair, passing away in 1903 (pg. 380)
George B. Post, Charles McKim, Richard M. Hunt, Robert Peabody, and Henry van Brunt
famous architects not actually from Chicago (pg. 78)
hired by Burnham to help with the Fair (pg. 105)
Sophia Hayden
architect chosen by a contest to design the Woman's Building for the Fair (pg. 120)
was removed from the Fair planning and placed into a sanitorium due to pressures from the head of the Board of Lady Managers (pg. 142)
Charles B. Atwood
hired in replacement of Root (pg. 120)
Sol Bloom
young entrepreneur (pg. 133)
hired to oversee concessions, construction, and promotion at the Fair for a salary equal to the President's (pg. 137, 140)
made quite a bit of profit before the fair even began (pg. 208)
became a congressman and helped make the charter that founded the United Nations after the fair (pg. 381)
Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast
sends letters to Trude, despite Trude not knowing him (pg. 183)
thought Harrison was in his debt for all the campaigning he did for the election (pg. 214)
shot and killed Harrison Oct 28 (pg.328-330), was sentenced to death for it (pg. 383)
A. S. Trude
famous criminal defense attorney (pg. 183)
received and kept letters from Prendergast (pg. 183)
became a prosecuting attorney in Prendergast's court case (pg. 382)
Rudolf Ulrich
Olmsted's super intendent (pg. 195)
filled in for Olmsted while he was sick, despite Olmsted not trusting him (pg. 195)
Carter Henry Harrison
5th term mayor of Chicago (pg. 212)
well loved by working class men (pg. 213)
assassinated by Prendergast on Oct 28 (pg. 328-330)
George Ferris Jr. and W. F. Groneau
invented the Ferris Wheel for the World Fair (pg. 258)
Ferris passed i 1896 due to typhoid fever (pg. 380)
Notable buildings/structures
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Stone Gate
portal to the Union Stock Yard (pg. 22)
made by Burnham and Root's firm (pg. 22)
Mauntauk
the tallest building of the time, first "skyscraper" (pg. 25)
made by Burnham and Root's firm (pg. 25)
the Grannis Block
Burnham and Root's flagship structure (pg. 29)
destroyed by a fire (pg. 29)
Auditorium Theatre
was the biggest private building in America at the time (pg. 30)
made by Sullivan and Peck's firm
Women's Christian Temperance Union Temple
at the time of being built, one of the tallest skyscrapers (pg. 57)
made by Burnham and Root's firm (pg. 57)
Administration Building
designed by Hunt for the Fair (pg. 113)
the largest and most important building at the Fair (pg. 113)
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building
designed by Post for the Fair (pg. 114)
Transportation Building
designed by Adler and Sullivan for the Fair (pg. 114)
had one large entrance, suggested by Burnham, that became the talk of the Fair (pg. 115)
Mines Building
first of the main exposition buildings to start construction for the Fair (pg. 133)
Court of Honor
centerpiece of the Fair (pg. 134)
The Wooded Island
location of Japan government's outdoor echibit (pg. 168)
the Ferris Wheel
designed by Ferris for the fair (pg. 258)
the Natatorium
held the Midway ball (pg. 313)
Museum of Science and Industry
originally built as the fair's Palace of Fine Arts (pg. 375)