After the Chicago's fire in 1871, the city had to rebuild and wanted to showcase the new "Chicago" to the world in the Columbian's World's Fair Exposition in 1893. The expo was composed of several government buildings, the fair grounds, and an island.
The exposition also held the first fair grounds or midway that was approximately 2 miles long. The first viewing of the Farris wheel was presented at the world's fair on the midway.
The main part of the exposition was held at the Court of Honor or also known as "White City." The architect D. H. Bernham was the director of structures designed for the White City. He composed three rules in which his team had to abide by such as a 60 foot cornice height, to use Beaux Classicism from l'Ecole Des beaux Arts, and all the buildings had to be white giving it the name White City.
On display at the expo was also a viewing of electricity the new invention during this time. Overall the well designed plan of this exposition influenced the City Beautiful Movement in which cities such as Washington D.C. reconstructed their city, building boulevards and new building structures.
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