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| | World's Columbian Exposition |
 | | After eight ballots, Congress finally selected Chicago as the site, by a vote of 157 for Chicago, 107 for New York, 25 for St. Louis, and 18 for Washington, D. The fair was considered the greatest event of its kind in history. |
 | | In the Chicago of 1893, the Mayor was elected to a 2-year term and received a salary of $7,000. |
 | | Chicago was gutted by a great fire in 1871 that destroyed over 2,000 acres of the built environment and caused a loss of over $196 million (in 1871 dollars). |
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