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On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a world record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 751,026 people. The debt for the fair was soon paid off with a check for $1.5 million (equivalent to $50.9 million in 2023). [4] Chicago has commemorated the fair with one of the stars on its municipal flag. [5]
The event was founded as the American Booksellers Association Convention and Trade Show in 1947 and continued under this name until 1994, when Reed Exhibitions purchased a 49% share of the event. The following year, 1995, Reed took 100% control and renamed the convention BookExpo America.
A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934. The fair, registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), celebrated the city's centennial.
Look for another summer weekend of live music, as well as Fiesta Del Sol, Chinatown Summer Fair and a Bollywood-inspired performance in the park. Plus a Chicago automobile museum shows off its stuff.
The Exposition, more commonly known today as the Chicago World's Fair, was a “White City,” covering 633 acres (2.56 km 2) with 200 buildings. It was open for six months and had attendance which ranked as high as nearly one half for the entire population of the United States at that time.
Stands during MWC Barcelona 2019, a trade show for the mobile communications industry in Barcelona, Spain. A trade show, also known as trade fair, trade exhibition, or trade exposition, is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products and services, meet with industry partners and customers, study activities of competitors ...
The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS), first held in Cleveland, Ohio in 1927 [1], is a trade show that features industrial machinery and technology. It is the largest manufacturing technology trade show in North America, [2] and in 1990 was renamed from the original "International Machine Tool Show" to reflect the growing scope of the show to additional technologies such as ...
After the 2011 fair, owner Merchandise Mart Properties because it no longer wished to support the fair announced Art Chicago's cancellation. [14] In 2012, it subsumed the role of Art Chicago, which was Chicago's longest-running major contemporary art exposition, [ 8 ] running from 1980 until its cancelation after the 2011 fair due to financial ...