<Tr> <Th> Previous </Th> <Td> Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Next </Th> <Td> Brussels International (1897) in Brussels </Td> </Tr> <P> The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492 . The centerpiece of the Fair, the large water pool, represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World . Chicago bested New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis for the honor of hosting the fair . The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self - image, and American industrial optimism . </P> <P> The layout of the Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles B. Atwood . It was the prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be . It was designed to follow Beaux Arts principles of design, namely French neoclassical architecture principles based on symmetry, balance, and splendor . The color of the material generally used to cover the buildings facades gave the fairgrounds its nickname, the White City . Many prominent architects designed its 14 "great buildings". Artists and musicians were featured in exhibits and many also made depictions and works of art inspired by the exposition . </P>

Where was the 1893 world's fair held