The World’s Fair That Ignored More Than Half the World
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 12, 2025
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The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a spectacle that has no real equivalent today: Think of a theme park where you can also listen to TED Talks, or the most cutting-edge trade show ever, held in obsessively manicured fairgrounds.
Between May and October, the nation and the world flocked to the exposition, often called the Chicago . . .
