On July 19, 1893, the jury charged four people with criminal negligence — Daniel Burnham, the fair’s director of works; Edward Murphy, the fire marshal of the World’s Fair Fire Department ...

The Beaux-Arts style of buildings designed by architect Daniel Burnham influenced construction ... the exercises will end and the great World’s Fair will be officially a thing of the past.” ...

An arrangement of buildings around a terrace had been used at the last World's Fair, in Paris of 1889 -- but the Chicago site was four times larger. Daniel Hudson Burnham, of the Chicago ...

When World's Fair architect Daniel Hudson Burnham is murdered by a young doctor named Henry H. Holmes in Chicago in 1893, Americans are shocked, especially when they learn that Holmes had built a ...

The story takes place in 1893, Chicago prepared to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a monumental undertaking spearheaded by architect Daniel Burnham ... The Fair became a global ...

Marking the 125th anniversary of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the musical follows Chicago architect Daniel Burnham through his ambitious fight to win the job of building the fair. Finfer said ...

“The Devil in the White City” is also about how the fates of two men, visionary fair architect Burnham and the serial killer Holmes, were forever linked by the World's Fair. Burnham designed the ...

The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 is famous for reshaping the city and boosting Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root (who passed away before the fair) to legendary status in the world of ...

ImageCourtesy of Wikimedia user RillkeBot (Public Domain) The United States had made an admirable showing for itself at the very first World’s Fair, the Crystal Palace Exhibition, held in the ...