Ephemeral City : A People's History of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair

University of Illinois Press

Ephemeral CityA People's History of Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair\nAuthor(s): Lindsay Fullerton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252088520, 978-0252088520\nSynopsis\nLess celebrated than the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, the [tel] Century of Progress Exposition brought visitors face-to-face with gleaming American consumerism in the midst of the Great Depression. Lindsay Fullerton draws on a wealth of personal photographs, scrapbooks, oral histories, and writings to illuminate the wildly different experiences of fairgoers against the backdrop of a city steeped in poverty and segregation. \n\n The Exposition took place amidst massive changes sparked by expansion of mass media, Franklin Roosevelts election, the repeal of Prohibition, and the Great Migration. A diverse cross-section of Chicagoans informs Fullertons history of the event in the context of the fast-changing America of the.