World's Columbian Exposition

[MerryBlooms]

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I'm finishing up my read of, "The Devil in the White City", by Erik Larson. I guess I haven't gotten to this part yet. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-man-who-wrote-the-pledge-of-allegiance-93907224/?no-ist&page=2 I recently watched/listened to, http://www.amazon.com/Expo-Magic-White-Gene-Wi…/…/B004S77WA2 to get a 'feel' for the Chicago World's Fair, and I wasn't disappointed.

Super book, super documentary.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Apparently, Leo DiCaprio is planning a movie on this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_White_City#Film_adaptation

[MerryBlooms]

2. I hope they do the book justice.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. There's a documentary by NatGeo, but I couldn't find a link to it...

but I know I've watched it...

[MerryBlooms]

6. I'll search around later for it and if I find it, I'll post it. :)

[mopinko]

4. real page turner.

should be mandatory reading for people who think the city is wild these days.

[MerryBlooms]

7. So good, thanks for recommending it to me! Little did I know,

the book was already on one of our bookshelves. I'd mentioned to my husband I wanted it, and that's when he let me know he already had a copy.

[frazzled]

5. That's a poster for the 1933 Century of Progress Fair

held near Northerly Island on Lake Michigan, not the 1893 World Columbian Exposition held in Jackson Park on the South Side (the subject of Devil in the White City).

It's an interesting book, though!

[MerryBlooms]

8. Thanks for pointing that out. Oops. :P edited.