The 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, A Century of Progress, put the city in the spotlight for its centennial, while displaying the best of scientific progress as well as bringing the cultures of the world to Chicago.

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(Built for the previous World’s Fair in 1893, this museum is still going strong)

(Also still in use, this is the country’s oldest planetarium)

(Still in business, too!)

These images (and others!) are from Wade Hall Photograph Collection 29, images 41-66.