![]() ![]() He uses forgery and deception to buy a nearby building, which he converts into a grim hotel. Holmes marries a woman named Myrta while he’s still married to Clara, but immediately begins to neglect her. ![]() In Chicago, he enjoys the disgusting smells of the slaughterhouses that are the major industry of the city, and quickly purchases a drugstore that becomes popular because he attracts female customers. He has already married a woman named Clara, but he abandons her quickly. Holmes, who was born Herman Mudgett, is immensely attractive to women, in part because he breaks the traditional rules of courtship. Soon after, two of the city’s leading architects, Daniel Burnham and John Root, are given artistic control over the buildings at the Fair.Īt the same time that Burnham and Root are assembling an architectural team, a young, handsome, blue-eyed doctor who calls himself H. ![]() Propelled by its huge civic pride, Chicago wins its bid to host the World’s Fair. In 1890, Chicago is a rapidly growing city and eager to prove itself to the more established Eastern cities of the United States. Aboard the Olympic on April 12, 1912, the same night that the Titanic sinks, Daniel Hudson Burnham contemplates his years planning the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, held to honor the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America. ![]()
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