"Wolfgang" wrote in message
Don't know if you're familiar with the story of the exposition, but it's
an interesting one. The Museum of Science and Industry is the only
original structure remaining. I'd heard a bit about it from time to time,
but didn't know much about it until I read "The Devil in the White City" a
couple of years ago. The story as told by Erik Larsen is a fascinating
account of how an impossible job got done in an amazingly short
time......not quite short enough to make the proposed opening on the 400th
anniversary of Columbus's landing.....but it was done fast nevertheless.
The only thing that saves this from being a REALLY good book is that
Larsen seems to have lost his mind entirely and tried to interweave an
inane tale of a serial killer who was working Chicago at the time into the
story of the exposition.....which it has absolutely nothing to do with.

I'm glad you mentioned this. My BIL recently gave me a copy, and though I
got a few pages into it, it didn't grab me, then other stuff came up, & I
haven't picked it back up yet. He highly recommended it, however.

Joe F.