More is More

So when it comes down to being the best of the best, one must sometimes go to all measures, and pull out all the stops, add all the garnishes, dot every I and cross every T to be considered the best. When it came down to the decision of the which United States city would host the World Fair, Chicago the up-and-coming city, had to prove that it was certainly better than the epitomic city of New York. Sure the battle for the fair was between 4 US cities, (New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and St. Louis) but who in there right mind would pick the United States capital, although the central of our democratic government, the example of the checks and balance system, as the place of fantasy that the world would flock to? Plus St. Louis was although the archway of the Mississippi River, not exactly the most well known city and wasn’t the prime place of consideration anyways.
The battle was on between the White City and the Big Apple to get the once in-a-lifetime chance of being the host city. The polls were the most competitive. People sat outside the Chicago tribune waiting for each new update. Chicago would pull away in the voting polls then New York would catch up once again. The ongoing poll battle had the city at a standstill as people would leave there cars and police would disregard the traffic, and the murders in progress , to sit and wait in front of the Tribune Window. As the somber faced reporter man, slowly painted the post of the most recent poll results with paste, the city stood in anticipation, and tension that could be cut with a butter knife. Finally the Chicago was able to gain the majority vote. New York City would have to wait for their next chance, as Chicago was voted to be the new host city of the World Fair.
Now that Chicago was the new home of the World Fair, they had the new task to prove to the world that they could accommodate such a spectacular event, and not turn the World Fair into a County Fair. The technology that went into the creation of the World Fair not only proved that Chicago was an up-and-rising city but that it was more than the agricultural slaughter house. The utilization of new technology such as the air-compressed strategy to painting the huge building that would accommodate the fair, and the idea of air conditioning, that our school did not even fully grasp until the 1990’s proved that it was a city of not only technological and agricultural advancement but the a host of cultural advancements. Although some ideas of new and foreign culture proved to be too appaling to some living in Chicago at the time, Chicago broke the record of the most people to gather in a one day. Shattering the three hundred thousand and something record boasted by the Parisians, Chicago’s World Fair accommodated over seven hundred thousand people in one day.