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 ...

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 ...

Instead of continuing on with another film or book, Finney used his engineering experience to get the World’s Fair into an emerging ... famed architect Daniel Burnham back to life.

“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 ...

Burnham, an architect “trying to make his ... believed to have murdered scores of people during Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair. He once managed a hotel at 63rd and Wallace in the Englewood ...