PBS American Experience 2003 Chicago City of the Century – Part 2: The Revolution Has Begun
English | Documentary | Size: 980.2 MB
On May 1, 1893, as 200,000 onlookers roared their approval, President Grover Cleveland stepped from his carriage to open Chicago’s Columbian Exposition. Cleveland delivered a short speech, after which fountains sprayed jets of water 100 feet high, thousands of flags unfurled and warships sounded explosive salutes. Once the cacophony subsided, the fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ arrival in the New World was officially open. In the following months, some 27 million people visited the fair, and the exhibition focused the world’s attention on the city. That summer marked Chicago’s moment of greatest power, the time at which the world’s first skyscraper city had reached the pinnacle of its ascendancy as a center of culture, commerce and industry.
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