Cobblestone articles from February 2009

Cobblestone archives from February 2009

Chicago certainly got the world's attention in 1893.(Editor's Note)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Chicago certainly got the world's attention in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition, hosted by that city, seemed to eclipse any previous world's fair--from the grand scale of its buildings, to the new and different exhibits it offered, to the...

Emma at the fair.
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sunday, June 18 Today began our adventure at the Columbian Exposition, the largest world's fair in history! After paying 50 cents to enter, we made our way to the Court of Honor. Water in the Grand Basin and...

Fair fare.(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] American tastebuds were treated to many new foods at the World's Columbian Exposition. Can you match these dues with the products they're describing? Choose from the box below. Answers are on page 48. 1. A...

A turning point.(World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stinky! That's how Chicago, home to stockyards and slaughterhouses, was once known. But the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition was a major factor in changing how the world looked at Chicago, and at the United States....

Dreaming of the White City.(Chicago)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Congress announced that Chicago would be the site of the World's Columbian Exposition, many people were surprised and disappointed. This world s fair was to celebrate the 400th...

Public spaces.(Frederick Law Olmsted)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They needed a man of vision. To Daniel Burnham and John Root, the choice for designer of the World's Columbian Exposition was easy. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was--and still is--America's best-known landscape...

An American renaissance.(World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Look at me!" That's what the United States was saying with the World's Columbian Exposition. At a gathering of painters and sculptors during the planning of the fair, someone observed proudly that it was the...

Light show.(World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We take for granted today how easily we can switch on the lights when we get home. But in 1893, few private homes had electric lights. The streets of most American cities were lit by gaslamps--if at all. Thomas A....

See the fair in 3-D!(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... By visiting dioramas at the World's Columbian Exposition, visitors could see faraway places and exciting events as if they were really there. In a diorama, pictures are spaced in front of one another on a special stage. This gives the images an...

Solving the poop problem.(horse poop)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The organizers of the World's Columbian Exposition had a messy problem: horse poop. The event was planned on a scale that no previous world's fair could match. The millions of visitors expected might not want to walk...

A showcase for women.(Chicago Women's Club)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Chicago Women's Club members wanted an active role in the fair that was coming to their city. Other women did, too. When suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony circulated a petition, more than 100 of the nation's...

Did you know?(World's Columbian Exposition facts)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Picture postcards and elongated coins--when you put a penny in a machine and turn a crank, the penny comes out with a design impressed on it--were introduced as souvenirs at the World's Columbian Exposition. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Down and out in the windy city.(Chicago)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ray Stannard Baker was fresh out of college and looking for a job as a newspaper reporter in 1892. Reporters' jobs were hard to get, however, and Baker found himself out of work and out of money in Chicago. "I had...

Left out.(African Americans in the World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... To the question of what role African Americans would play in the World's Columbian Exposition, the organizers of the Chicago fair had a clear answer: none. At past expositions in other cities, black Americans had showcased their history...

Stroll down the midway.(World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's hard to imagine any kind of fair without the fun and excitement of a midway, complete with amusements, rides, games, and exhibits of strange and amazing sights. As soon as the news spread that there would be a...

Welcome to the Wild West!(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sixteen months before the World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago, Colonel William Cody--better known as Buffalo Bill--asked the fair's organizers for permission to include his famous Wild West show. He had...

Ferris's grand idea.(George Washington Gale Ferris)
February 1, 2009... Daniel Burnham was stumped. He wanted the World's Columbian Exposition to have a centerpiece, something to rival the Eiffel Tower from the Paris exposition of 1889. Not only had the graceful iron-and-steel structure become a landmark recognized...

Closing day.(World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Traditionally, world's fair buildings are temporary--not built to last. Once the exhibits are packed up and sent back to their homes, the buildings that remain are quickly dismantled and cleared away. At first,...

Up next.(world fairs)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The next world s fair will be in Shanghai, China, in 2010. Almost 200 countries will participate, and some 70 million visitors are expected. The theme of the fair is "Better City, Better Life." The fair hopes to foster urban innovation and...

Seeing the world.(Going Global)(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... The world seemed like a much larger place in 1893, and without television and the Internet, most people knew very little about foreign lands. The World's Columbian Exposition offered a somewhat fictionalized but still fascinating look at other...

Mummies, camels, and sphinxes, oh my.(Going Global)(Egyptian culture)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Another popular exhibit from the Midway was "A Street in Cairo": a narrow roadway and several buildings that looked just like those found in Egypt's capital city. Almost 200 residents of the real Cairo had been...

An Island temple.(Going Global)(Ho-o-Den)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... On the Wooded Island in the center of a lagoon, a small piece of Japan was built for the fair in Chicago. Known as the Ho-o-Den, it was a pavilion of buildings constructed in Japan and then shipped to Chicago and reassembled by Japanese...

Change.(Your Letters)(Poem)
February 1, 2009... Change Beauty is skin deep. So is race. It's time to swim below the face. Below the skin, you will find a loving heart, a beautiful mind. Look through their eyes just for a day, and...

Roller Coaster.(Your Letters)(Poem)
February 1, 2009... Roller Coaster As the adrenaline rushes through your body, you get a feeling of nervousness. People are screaming from up above. You wonder how scary it is. Hoping the line will move faster, you're so anxious to...

The Gribbly.(Your Letters)(Poem)
February 1, 2009... The Gribbly The Gribbly's a monster with fur of sickening green. Of all terrible creatures the Gribbly is the queen. She feeds on dirty socks and munches cockroach heads. She sneaks into people's houses ...

Bunker Hill.(Your Letters)(Poem)
February 1, 2009... Bunker Hill The flag o'er Breed's Hill did fly as the Redcoats marched there, sneaky and sly. They saw, by the light of the dawn, the big fortifications on the lawn. Up Breed's Hill those Redcoats did scale, ...

A Sensational Feeling.(Your Letter)(Poem)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A Sensational Feeling The window is open and a fresh gust of wind spreads a bundle of snowflakes across my face. Gazing out the window, I see an untouched miracle-- Mother Nature's own...

Journey to the North Pole: Mark Twain great inventions.(Your Letter)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Write to us! Draw a picture or write a poem or short essay that connects to one of the above COBBLESTONE themes on which we currently are working. All contributions must be your own, original work. Include your name...

Books to read.(The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893)(Fair Weather)(The Great Wheel)(The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record)(Book review)
February 1, 2009... The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin and Christine Laing (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002, www.press.uillinois.edu) balances text and historical images to give readers a...

xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/WCE/title.html.(On the Web)(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... At xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/WCE/title.html, you can find a great introduction to the important elements of the Chicago exposition. Click on "Tour the Fair," "Reactions to the Fair," and "The Legacy of the Fair" to learn more. The site also...

Columbus.gl.iit.edu.(On the Web)(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Another excellent site is columbus.gl.iit.edu/ Organized by the Paul V. Galvin Library, part of the Illinois State Library, this Web site aims to create a digital collection of images and text related to the World's Columbian Exposition....

Ethan rates it ...(Digging Deeper)(www.chicagohs.org/history/expo.html)(Website overview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (****) Guess what I did today? In 20 minutes I went back in time 115 years, learned a bunch of facts, and toured the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago - all before dinner! Don't believe me? Well, thanks to...

www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html.(On the Web)
February 1, 2009... www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html, at the Encyclopedia of Chicago Web site, offers a great summary of the fair and its lasting impact on Chicago.

www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/Projects/columbian_expo.htm.(On the Web)(World's Columbian Expostition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Thanks to a program at UCLA, at www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/Projects/columbian_expo.htm, you can enjoy a virtual simulation of the World's Columbian Expostition. In an effort to explore historic urban environments through modern technology, the...

Places to visit.(Chicago)
February 1, 2009... Only a few structures from the fair still exist. Aside from the Museum of Science and Industry (see page 37) and the Art Institute of Chicago (see below) today, which are buildings that remain on their original fair sites, other structures are...

From the archives.(www.cobblestonepub.com)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Check out these past issues of COBBLESTONE for related information about Chicago, American innovations, and U.S. inventors: Chicago (COB8704) The Scoop on Muckrakers (COB0503) The Gilded Age (COB0004) Frederick Douglass: Fighter for Freedom...

The windy city.(Say What? Exploring the origins of words and sayings)(Chicago)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Have you ever heard someone call Chicago the WINDY CITY? There are several theories as to how this blustery nickname came into being. Politicians and promoters who wanted Chicago to host the World's Columbian Exposition were accused of being...

Treats for the tastebuds.(Dr. D's Mystery Hero)(1893 World's Columbian Exposition)
February 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You know, the more I learn about history, the more I realize how it affects our daily lives. It's not just something in books. History is with us today in the ways in which it has shaped our world. Take this...

Brain ticklers.(World's Columbian Exposition)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Give your brain a little tickle to see how well you read and understood this issue on the World's Columbian Exposition. If you believe the answer is false, give yourself the ultimate test and see whether you can explain why it is false. Answers...

A final word.
February 1, 2009... Imagine yourself as a visitor to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. What things would you have enjoyed the most?

Cartoon connection with Ebenezer & the Colonel.(Comic)(Cartoon)
February 1, 2009... My Chicago friends offered to give us a tour of the WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION Fairgrounds. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Want to come? No, thanks! I Want-to see all the cool INVENTIONS in the Electricity Building and Machinery Hall....

Ostrich alert!(Creature Feature)(Brief article)
February 1, 2009... Old Abe," "General Grant," "Grover Cleveland," and more than 20 of their fellow two-legged friends also "attended" the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. These guests weren't U.S. presidents, as you might think from their...