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Born: 8/4/1846 in
Henderson, New York
Death: 6/1/1912 in
Heidelberg, Germany
Career : 1872 joined C,D& W were he and Root designed over 300 structures, Director of Works for the fair, Honorary degree from Harvard and Yale
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-H-Burnham

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Daniel Burnham wasn’t the smartest kid, but his confidence, strength, and persuasion lead Root and himself to greater heights. Were he became director of the fair and with his efficiency and coordination brought about the impossible task of bringing the World Fair to reality.

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“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood”
“Gentlemen, 1893 will be the third great date in our country’s history. On the two others, 1776 and 1861, all true Americans served, and so now I ask you to serve again”
“There was no regret, rather a feeling of pleasure that the elements and not the wrecker should wipe out the spectacle of the Columbain season”.

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Burnham overseen the construction of 150 buildings and a work force of 10,000 men. The fair was redemption for Chicago and for  Burnham’s failure in school. But more then that he wanted to show his vision of the fair and struck the people with awe. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-H-Burnham

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Born: 1/10/1850 in
Lumpkin, Georgia
Death: 1/15/1891 in
Chicago, Illinois
Career: Worked for C,D& W, first skyscraper, Director of American Institute of Architect
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wellborn-Root

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Root didn’t care for the business side of architecture that was Burnham’s specialty. Root was more creative and intellectual he studied broadly and was know for his wit. They had a interlocking power and organization to succeed. Sadly Root died and left Burnham alone with their greatest task.

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“He would grow abstract and silent, and faraway look would come into his eyes, and the building was there before him every stone”
“Do you hear that?  Isn’t it wonderful? That’s what I call music”.

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Root believed in the beauty of the fair and it as the future of architecture.

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Born:4/26/1822 in
Hartford, Connecticut
Death: 8/28/1903 in
Brooklyn, Massachusetts
Career: Counrys best Landscaping Architecture, own firm, worked on Central Park NY.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Law-Olmsted

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Olmsted was an old man dedicated to his work and trying to make landscaping architecture recognized as an art. He work through his server tooth pain, insomnia and metal health problems in order to complete his work.

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“My ill health, and the consequent excessive pressure of other duties, I am more than ever disposed to pursue this policy, and to carry it further. But I must confess that I can not do so without much anxiety”
“I remain fairly well, but get horribly tired every day. It is hard to get things done; my body is so overworked, and I constantly fail to accomplish what I expect to do”.

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Olmsted work on all ground, paths, lagoon, lake fronts and most noticeable the wooded island to provide a stunning view of beauty of nature.

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Born: 2/14/1859 in
Galesburg, Illinois
Death: 11/22/1896 in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Career: Civil Engineer,
G.W.G. Ferris & Co.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-ferris-wheel-180955300/

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George Ferris’ design was rejected at first but he was determined to prove to the fair committe that his wheel could out eiffel, Eiffel.

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“Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation”
“Built in the face of every obstacle, it is an achievement which reflects so much credit upon the inventor, that were Mr. Ferris”.

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Ferris’ wheel was 264 ft. tall and had 36 cars attached that could hold over 2,000 people at once. On average 20,000 people a day would ride it and be able to see the whole fair.

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Name: Herman Mudgett
Born: 5/16/1861
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Death: 5/7/1896
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Career: Attended medical school, committed scams and fraud, owned multiple businesses like his hotel and pharmacy.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes

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H. H Holmes was a charming and intelligent man who committed insurance fraud to fund his hotel and played on the emotions of creditors by befriending them or earning there sympathy.  With his hotel Holmes charmed the woman that worked and stayed there to earn there trust but soon they would mysteriously disappear without a trace. Some of them he ask to marry and spent months getting to know them and their family’s in order to gain there life savings and gain new victims to fuel his blood lust. Holmes would would kill woman and children without remorse because he believed that he was born to kill. He was only stoped because he was arrested for fraud and police would discover the horrors of what had happened in his hotel and would be hanged. H. H Holmes would become known as America’s first serial killer.

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“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murder, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing”.
“Holmes saw it in transitional women, fresh clean and young things free for the first time in history but unsure of what that freedom meant and of the risk it entailed. What he craved was possession and the power it gave him; what he adored was anticipation-the slow acquisition of love, then life, and finally the secrets within. The ultimate disposition of the the material was irrelevant, a recreation. That he happened to found a way to make disposal both efficient and profitable was simply a testament to his power”.

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Only Holmes knew the true design and purpose of the hotel and  he used to gather young woman in town for the World Fair. Holmes had a sound proof vault that functioned as a gas chamber were he would suffocate, poison, and torture his victims he  injoyed the final moments of there lives the frantic and scared emotions gave him pleasure. After he moved them through secret rooms and hallways to discreetly bring the bodies to the basement were he would dissect or dispose of the bodies in his furnace or acid.  For years Holmes had been controlling and killing kpeople without ever raising suspicion. He would confess to killing 27 people but some estimates go up 200.