* Chicago Tribune, used to spread "big" news (world's fair) to the citizens (pgs 11, 13, 16, ...)
* World's Fair, New York, Washington, St Louis, and Chicago runs for large public exhibition (pg 16-17)
* Panic of 1893, Burnham is concerned with the failure of banks and failure of businesses (pg 20, 97, ...)
* Columbian Exposition Company, as Chicago won a bid for 1893's World's Fair, creates this company to develop a fair (pg 33)
* Union Stock Yards, Burnham & Root’s first major architectural project was designing the entrance to the Chicago Union Stock Yards (pg 20)
* "Cliff-dwellers," new race of business who will innovate the look of the business (pg 26)
* Antebellum South, Olmstead have gone through this region of area and gathered knowledge (pg 53)
* Immigrants, while Holmes is constructing his first building he claims there is no shortage of labor then hires and fires them (pg 67)
* Pinkerton National Detective Agency, a detective agency (pg 85)
*Labor Strikes, Burnham’s concerns involving banks and businesses foreclosing are accompanied by his worry that there will be a labor strike on the construction site as there have been many around the country at the time (pg 97)
Feel free to add more historical facts that you have found in PART I of The Devil In the White City!
* World's Fair, New York, Washington, St Louis, and Chicago runs for large public exhibition (pg 16-17)
* Panic of 1893, Burnham is concerned with the failure of banks and failure of businesses (pg 20, 97, ...)
* Columbian Exposition Company, as Chicago won a bid for 1893's World's Fair, creates this company to develop a fair (pg 33)
* Union Stock Yards, Burnham & Root’s first major architectural project was designing the entrance to the Chicago Union Stock Yards (pg 20)
* "Cliff-dwellers," new race of business who will innovate the look of the business (pg 26)
* Antebellum South, Olmstead have gone through this region of area and gathered knowledge (pg 53)
* Immigrants, while Holmes is constructing his first building he claims there is no shortage of labor then hires and fires them (pg 67)
* Pinkerton National Detective Agency, a detective agency (pg 85)
*Labor Strikes, Burnham’s concerns involving banks and businesses foreclosing are accompanied by his worry that there will be a labor strike on the construction site as there have been many around the country at the time (pg 97)
Feel free to add more historical facts that you have found in PART I of The Devil In the White City!
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