1893 Chicago's World Fair - No Mystery? A Hoax? Tartaria?

YOU WERE TOLD that the city of Chicago once held the World’s Colombian Exposition to publicly celebrate Columbus discovering America. The year was 1893, and the Great Economic Panic was already underway. Some 27-million people, a number equal to half of the entire United States population, arrived from all over the world to behold 200 newly erected buildings on 600 acres of reclaimed swamp, all of which had come to fruition within two years of its initial planning.

In as little as six months, Americans learned about moving sidewalks, phosphorescent lamps, Cracker Jack, Juicy Fruit gum, Quaker Oats, Cream of Wheat, shredded Wheat, the hamburger, and a suggestive belly-dance known as the hootchy-kootchy. The very first Ferris wheel, built by some guy named Ferris, made its worldwide premiere. One of the most visited exhibits involved Nikola Tesla and electricity. And because Buffalo Bill Cody was not invited but could not be outdone, he set up his Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show just outside of the fair grounds.

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Numbered among its visitors was children’s author and Theosophist L. Frank Baum, who used the engineering marvel as inspiration for his own Emerald City to come.

But you probably already know this already. You’ve done your research. You’ve gazed back fondly at something which is advertised to be “a moment in time.” Perhaps you’re a closeted building hobbyist and its neoclassical architecture style drew your nostalgic gaze. Then again, maybe it’s useless party facts you’re after, so the next time someone is morally outraged at the mention of Mommy-and-Me pole dancing classes you can sarcastically quip that the person who first taught the hootchy-kootchy was a woman named Little Egypt. Or you’re just really into Ferris wheels. Try not to sigh so heavily as to fog up your computer screen when I tell you that I do not believe in the Chicago Worlds’ Fair of 1893.

It was a hoax.

Mostly—

The official story is that the great White City was built akin to a movie set. You know, don’t walk off stage or you’ll trip over a bucket and fall into the rafters. Facades were made not of stone, we are told, but a mixture of plaster, cement, and a jute fiber called staff, all of which was then painted white in order to give the Chicagoan Camelot its gleam. Apparently, 27-million people braved the frontier by boat, buggy, and train, and converged upon Chicago rather than New York, Paris, or Rome, in order to be wowed by a neoclassical city built of glue and popsicle sticks but was made to look like the real thing. We are expected to believe that developers and exhibitors spent two years building and millions upon millions of dollars investing in, which they would then turn around and destroy.

They furthermore tell us that plans were drawn to refinish the exteriors in marble after the fair was completed and the exhibitors had gone home on the Reading Railroad, but more importantly, that those plans were abandoned in July of 1894, when Chicagoans watched the city destroyed in a spellbinding fire.

There are absolutely no blue prints. Documentation is thin.

Except for a few rinky-dink shacks resembling put-put props, nobody built anything.

Article: https://theunexpectedcosmology.com/i-do-not-believe-in-the-chicago-worlds-fair-of-1893/

All that is needed is an open-minded search for the truth, and an ounce of sense.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6HuBYiQEeM&t=320s