As plans for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago ... Ferris’ wheel, notably an 89,320-pound axle that had to be hoisted onto two towers 140 feet in the air. Launched on June 21, 1893 ...

Chicago welcomed the very first Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, and its own giant wheel recently got a makeover, replacing small red boxes with enclosed pods just before ...

Selected list of things that originated in Chicago. View of Midway from the Ferris Wheel, Chicago, 1893. Nineteenth-century Chicago bred innovators in many fields. New technologies, business and ...

News from west suburban communities includes items from Clarendon Hills, La Grange Park, Hinsdale, Elmhurst and Brookfield ...

The “Ferris Wheel” lasted longer than its creator’s life, fortunes and reputation – but only marginally. It remained in Chicago during the decade immediately after the World’s Fair ...