Archaeologists turned up remnants of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, the fabled White City that drew millions of visitors to Chicago’s Jackson Park, as they scoured the site of the Obama Presidential Center and nearby parkland as part of the federal review of plans for the proposed complex.
Among the artifacts are pieces of fair buildings — including red fragments that could be from one of the fair’s most notable structures, the multicolored Transportation Building by architect Louis Sullivan — and shards of cups and saucers that bear the mark of Chase and Sanborn, the fair’s official coffee supplier.
The archaeologists also discovered animal bones, most of which they identified as waste associated with food eaten at the fair. But they dangled the possibility that some of the bones might belong to camels and reindeer that were part of the exotic attractions that lined the fair’s Midway. The creatures are said to have died during the event.
“People may be interested in those bits and pieces, but just because they’re these historical curiosities doesn’t make them eligible for the National Register,” said Brad Koldehoff, chief archaeologist for the Illinois Department of Transportation.
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They could find pieces of Noah’s Ark and that jug-eared commie’s project wouldn’t be halted, lest the preservers be called racist. I would halt the project if a Cracker Jack ring was discovered.
Isn’t there some rare bug, or snake that can be found to spare Americans any construction with the name Obastard on it?
ht/ Chiguy
Need a screamapillar.
Halt construction? Not a chance. Columbus was a racist exploiter of indigenous peoples
who didn’t discover anything that wasn’t already known about. How dare he be honored
with an exposition? Dig away!
Too bad it’s not evidence of the ancient American empire of islam from which Thomas Jefferson stole that Koran he used to write the Declaration of Independence.
If they found 1893 World’s Fair Port-O-Johns, they’d STILL be MORE valuable, than the Obama Library/Man’s Country location that’s going up. 😳
It’s more than a little ironic that his library is going to be built on the ruins of a white city
How many mobsters, bootleggers and gangsters will they find digging this foundation?
Maybe Geraldo can do a special on Al Capone’s safe wearing his towel.
The surprise is there once was a civilization in Chicago.
It’s kind of ironical that the library is being built on the ruins of “The Fabled White City”…
OOPS….sorry cynic. You beat me to it. I was posting during a phone call….
Building the Obozo Library on the site of a garbage dump. How appropriate.
Nook the whole site, nothing will be lost.
So, they’re building The Dump on top of a dump. How fitting.
Take a handful of arrowheads and pottery and sprinkle liberally around the site
That will shut them down
So. If you own forest land and someone finds a spotted owl, your land becomes worthless. If a democrat is President the Forest Service can sell U.S. government owned logging rights to highest bidder who will then send part of proceeds to the democrats. If uranium is discovered deep in your multi generation family farm land, your land becomes a worthless hazardous waste site. But Hillary can sell our uranium to whomever is willing to send part of the profits back to Bill and Hillary. If you buy a lot and someone discovers a gas station was abandoned there 80 years ago, your land becomes worthless. But democrats can confiscate the land and build a stadium on the same spot without cleaning up the soil. If you drive down the road and hit an eagle, your life becomes worthless. But government approved wind mill farms can kill endangered bald eagles by the hundreds every day and there is no problem. If someone discovers Indian artifacts on your farm land, your farm land becomes worthless. But if a democrat wants to build something on a piece of land, none of the laws apply to said democrat. If you want to develop your land in California, the state and local governments will demand so many government mandated studies your project becomes worthless. But if democrat governor Moonbeam Brown wants to use your land for a fast train, none of the government mandated studies have to be complied with. Am I seeing a trend here?
“The Devil in the White City” is a great read…Talks about the
Serial killer who stalked the Fair..and L Frank . Baum’s
inspiration of the Wizard of Oz..Plus how PBR was named
Oh…Fug owebama!
How appropriate the site of the greatest self inflicted black murder in US history.
Not only was it a white city, it was also a fair, which must be racist too!
BTW, in 2016, we dug up an artifact from the Pan Pacific International Expo in our back yard. It was pretty cool to think that someone who once lived in our home lost their souvenir and we found it 100 years later!
If I did it right, that is what my new image is!
Out here, dig a ditch, find a chip of flint, or an arrowhead and boom…..the state arrives, gets all up in your business, and then never leaves.
I never would tell anyone I found anything on my land, whether it was an arrowhead, a spotted owl or even a weird looking lizard.
@Bcattin, that’s on my list to read as soon as I finish ‘The Lost City of the Monkey God.’ No, it’s not about Obozo.
Would digging be stopped if Jimmy Hoffa’s body were found?
Hope a sinkhole swallows up Barry’s bath house shrine as soon as it’s built.
Fun Fact: The Chicago Columbia Exhibition was built on reclaimed swampland. “From Swamp you are and to Swamp you shall return.”
Interesting coincidence that this land used to have a fair on it – and now they are about to build the world’s greatest freak show on it.