• Nonfiction

• Type: Book
• Length: 447 pages

"Devil In the White City," a horrifying account of a serial killer lurking at the edges of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. It's a contrapuntal tale of depravity and sophistication, of evil and beauty, of the hunter and the hunted. Hampton Sides

Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs. Jane Addams

The story of an American serial killer and the building of the 1893 World's Fair, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. - AsNotedIn

• Theme Group: Early Detectives
• Theme Group: Serial Killer

People

• Bertha M Palmer, President of the Board of Lady Managers
• Burnham and Root, Subject
• Carter Henry Harrison Sr, Subject
• Daniel H Burnham, Subject
• Francis Davis Millet, Subject
• Frederick Law Olmsted Sr, Subject
• H H Holmes, Subject
• Henry Sargent Codman, Subject
• Henry Van Brunt, Subject
• John Wellborn Root, Subject
• Patrick Eugene Prendergast, Subject
• Potter Palmer, Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present.
• William F Cody, Subject

Places

• Hull House, Chicago
• Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance, Chicago
• Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
• Old Stone Gate of Chicago Union Stockyards, Chicago Sherman's Stockyards
• Prairie Avenue District, Chicago John B Sherman's street
• Rookery Building, Chicago
• Wooded Island, Jackson Urban Park, Chicago