WHAT A GIFT! The brand of drama that went on behind the scenes of the building of the Chicago Fair was incredible yet amazing. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book! Being a native Chicagoan, the southside was a special and familiar character in this book. Reading details about the ingenuity and many processes that came out of the Fair, made it especially hard to put this book down. I could see the wilderness that were Jackson and Washington Parks. I could see the White City!!