Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

== In popular culture ==
* The Exposition is portrayed in the 2017 historical film, ''[[The Current War]],'' concerning the competition between [[George Westinghouse]] and [[Thomas Edison]] to establish the dominant form of electricity in the United States.
* ''[[1893: A World's Fair Mystery]]'', an interactive fiction by Peter Nepstad that recreates the Exposition in detail.
* ''[[Against the Day]]'', a fictional novel that takes place during the Exposition during the first act.
* ''[[The Devil in the White City]]'', a non-fiction book intertwining the true tales of the architect behind the Exposition and serial killer [[H. H. Holmes]].
* ''Timebound'', a time travel novel by [[Rysa Walker]], culminates at the Exposition.
* ''[[Expo: Magic of the White City]]'', a 2005 documentary film about the Exposition by [[Mark Bussler]].
* The Exposition served as the setting for ''Against Odds,'' a novel by [[Emma Murdock Van Deventer]].
* ''[[Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth]]'', a graphic novel set in part at the Exposition
* ''[[Wonder of the Worlds]]'', an adventure novel where Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain, and Houdini pursue Martian agents who have stolen a powerful crystal from Tesla at the Exposition.
* ''[[The Will of an Eccentric]]'', an adventure novel by [[Jules Verne]]. The Exposition is evoked with admiration in the early chapters.
* The Exposition appears in the season 1 episode "The World's Columbian Exposition" of the NBC series ''[[Timeless (TV series)|Timeless]]''.
* The Exposition is referenced in [[Sufjan Stevens]]'s song in his album ''[[Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)|Illinois]]'', "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!", which consists of two parts. Part 1 is titled, "World's Columbian Exposition".
* The Exposition plays a role in the historical novel, ''Owen Glen'', by [[Ben Ames Williams]].
* Mystery Train Island, a video game level on [[Poptropica]] released in 2011, is based on and is partially set at the Exposition, referred to as the 1893 Chicago World's Fair in the game.
* ''[[BioShock Infinite]]'', a 2013 video game. The floating city-state of [[Columbia (name)|Columbia]] was created at the Exposition and toured across the world to promote [[American exceptionalism]].
* The exposition is a key setting of the novel ''[[The City Beautiful (novel)|The City Beautiful]]'' by Aden Polydoros.
* The exposition appears in the travel book by [[Aleko Konstantinov]], ''[[To Chicago and Back]]''.
* The young adult novel ''Fair Weather'' by Illinois native author [[Richard Peck (writer)|Richard Peck]] takes thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett and her family from their downstate family farm to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
* ''[[The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me]]'', a 2022 video game which was inspired by [[H. H. Holmes]] murder castle.
* The Exposition appears in "[[1893 (Loki)|1893]]", the third episode of the [[Loki season 2|second season]] of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] (MCU) television series ''[[Loki (TV series)|Loki]]'' (2023). In the episode, [[Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)#2012 variant|Loki]] and [[Mobius M. Mobius (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Mobius M. Mobius]] attend the Exposition in search of [[Ravonna Renslayer (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Ravonna Renslayer]] and [[Miss Minutes]], and encounter [[Victor Timely (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Victor Timely]], a variant of [[Kang the Conqueror (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Kang the Conqueror]], whose help they need to save the [[Multiverse (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|multiverse]].
* The Exposition also appears in the post-credits scene of the MCU film ''[[Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania]]'' (2023), which uses footage from ''Loki'' despite being released before it.