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A part of our Cornerstones of History lecture series. Rebecca Graff, Professor of History Lake Forest College and author of The Vanishing City and the Enduring Home: Approaching Modernity at Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the Charnley House, did archeological and archival research on the “White City” and Midway Plaisance of the 1893 Chicago Fair. She will speak about the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century and how the 1893 fair created markets for new goods and influenced consumer practices that ripple in today’s world.