Illinois: The White City with Ashley Lemieux

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sharon takes Ashley LeMieux on a tour of the world’s most spectacular fair, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The World’s Columbian Exposition was a fair like none other. Located in Chicago on a 690-acre fairground, the exposition attracted over 27 million people. The fair dazzled visitors with 200 extravagant buildings and palaces, impressive spectacles of electric lights, the world’s first ferris wheel and exact replicas of the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria (Columbus’ ships). Fair visitors never went hungry and were introduced to foods such as Cracker Jacks, hot dogs, brownies, Quaker Oats and cream of wheat. The World’s Columbian Exposition changed U.S history, architecture and culture in a profound way. Join Sharon and Ashley as they uncover the mind-boggling story of Chicago’s World Fair and the lasting impact it had on the world.

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0:00.0	Hey friends delighted that you're here with me today. Thank you for joining me. I'm
0:08.6	chatting with my friend Ashley Lemieux today about an event that has so many mind-blown brain-tiggle moments that you are
0:17.1	going to want to like pause this, write stuff down and be like, I gotta look that up. So I'm not even gonna give you any
0:25.1	spoilers. You just gotta hear everything in this episode from start to finish
0:29.2	because you're just gonna have so many takeaways. This is really fun. Let's dive into the
0:34.3	World Colombian Exposition. I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says
0:41.3	so podcast.
0:45.0	Yay Ashley, I am so excited to be chatting with you today.
0:49.0	I'm so excited to see what I'm in for today.
0:52.0	It's good. It is fascinating. I feel like I could have filled up three hours worth of time with the material today.
0:59.0	So we're not even going to scratch the surface and hopefully this will be so interesting to people that they'll be inspired to do some of their own research, but I have some really cool stuff to share with you.
1:09.0	Tell everybody if they don't already follow the one and only Ashley Lemieux,
1:14.8	tell everybody what you do.
1:16.2	I'm a grief expert and grief coach,
1:18.5	and I help women specifically have tools
1:21.9	to get through the darkest moments of their lives and I do that through online
1:26.7	courses and through my books and we'll have retreats launching next year and through our online community on Instagram.
1:35.0	I just try to have a supportive community for women.
1:39.0	I love that.
1:40.0	I want to talk about the World's Colombian Exposition.
1:45.0	You know what that is?
1:47.0	No.
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