Chicago 1894

Good thing that city has gotten its act together and made something from all that!

frick the bears

Nowhere mentioned that the water tower was the only thing to survive the fire

Thanks, Mrs O'Leary's cow

Agree, You would think they could build with a long term plan and multiple functions.

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All of this was destroyed, as it we're told it was only built to last a few months.

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Right. we were there just a few weeks ago touring the city for our first time. We did the architecture tour as well as visit the Field Museum on bikes, riding up and down the Lakefront area. Most of the Worlds Fair structures were part of the "White City" and not meant to be permanent.
The Palace of Fine Arts(now the Field Museum) was one of the permanent structures. The other is now the Art Institute(down by the BEAN) at Adams@Michigan. These structures are absolutely gorgeous.

I'm up to speed on the official narrative -- I find it puzzling when I think about this amount of resources and grandeur invested at this time period in many cities across the world for temporary amusement.

Fun fact: While Chicago is indeed windy, the Windy City nickname actually came about due to the boastful nature of the city’s residents and politicians, particularly during their bid to host the 1894 Worlds Fair.

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Most of those structures were temporary for the World's Fair. Chicago wanted to upstage Paris, so they had the best architects and designers in the world designing all of those temporary structures.

There is one permanent structure in place today.

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It's understood that's the official narrative for these buildings, and the many incredible buildings around the world that were supposedly built to be temporary.