Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Operation ===
[[File:Weltausstellung-chicago brockhaus.jpg|thumb|An aerial view of the exposition at [[Jackson Park (Chicago)|Jackson Park]] in [[Brockhaus Enzyklopädie|Brockhaus' encyclopedia]]]]

The fair opened in May and ran through October 30, 1893. Forty-six nations participated in the fair, which was the first world's fair to have national pavilions.<ref>Birgit Breugal for the EXPO2000 Hannover GmbH Hannover, the EXPO-BOOK The Official Catalogue of EXPO2000 with CDROM</ref> They constructed exhibits and pavilions and named national "delegates"; for example, Haiti selected [[Frederick Douglass]] to be its delegate.<ref>Rydell, Robert W. (1987).[https://books.google.com/books?id=5TCMhe1WC9AC&q=all+the+worlds+a+fair&pg=PA53 ''All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824183026/http://www.google.com/books?id=5TCMhe1WC9AC&dq=all+the+worlds+a+fair&printsec=frontcover&source=bn#PPA53,M1 |date=2014-08-24 }}, p. 53. University of Chicago. {{ISBN|0-226-73240-1}}.</ref> The Exposition drew over 27 million visitors.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Viele|first=Nico|date=November 4, 2015|title=World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 comes alive on computer screens|url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/worlds-columbian-exposition-of-1893-comes-alive-on-computer-screens|access-date=2020-08-31|website=UCLA|language=en-US}}</ref> The fair was originally meant to be closed on Sundays, but the [[Chicago Woman's Club]] petitioned that it stay open.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8286648//|title=Thursday|date=17 December 1892|work=The Junction City Weekly Union|access-date=10 January 2017|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=10 January 1893|title=To Urge Sunday Opening of the Fair|work=Chicago Daily Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8286806//|access-date=10 January 2017|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}}</ref> The club felt that if the exposition was closed on Sunday, it would restrict those who could not take off work during the work-week from seeing it.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8286720//|title=Woman's Club Opposes Sunday Closing|date=11 December 1892|work=Chicago Daily Tribune|access-date=10 January 2017|via=Newspapers.com {{open access}}}}</ref>

The exposition was located in [[Jackson Park (Chicago)|Jackson Park]] and on the [[Midway Plaisance]] on {{convert|630|acre|km2}} in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, [[Hyde Park, Chicago|Hyde Park]], and [[Woodlawn, Chicago|Woodlawn]]. [[Charles H. Wacker]] was the director of the fair. The layout of the fairgrounds was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Beaux-Arts architecture of the buildings was under the direction of Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the fair. Renowned local architect [[Henry Ives Cobb]] designed several buildings for the exposition. The director of the American Academy in Rome, [[Francis Davis Millet]], directed the painted mural decorations. Indeed, it was a coming-of-age for the arts and architecture of the "[[American Renaissance]]", and it showcased the burgeoning neoclassical and [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] styles.