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Daniel Burnham was born
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John Root is born
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Burnham and his family move to Chicago
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Burnham fails his entrance exams to Yale and Harvard
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Great Fire
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Burnham and Root become partners
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Burnham marries Margaret Sherman
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Root marries Mary Walker
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Holmes marries Clara Loverling
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Root's wife dies
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Peter Brooks commissions Burnham and Root to build a skyscraper
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Root marries Dora Monroe
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Holmes enrolls in medical school
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Holmes marries Myrta Belknap
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Holmes buys land
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Paris Exposition
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Chicago becomes 2nd largest city
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Chicago is named the location of the World's Fair
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fair was jeopardized by an economic recession
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Holmes hires Ned Connor
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Root dies
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construction of the fair begins
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drawings of fair's main structure is presented by architects
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Holmes kills Julia and Pearl
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Period: to
800 violent deaths occur in Chicago
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Burnham became in charge of the fair
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Holmes kills Emeline
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World's Fair Opens
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Wall Street panics
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the ferris wheel was completed
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seven best parts of the fair are set on fire
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Detective Geyer begins search for Pitezel Children
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Detective Geyer finds remains of Alice and Nellie Pitezel
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detectives find human remains during their investigation of Holmes' castle
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Holmes is indited
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Holmes is hanged
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George Ferris dies
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Titanic sinks
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Millet Dies on Titanic
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Burnham dies