Twenty- two of us boarded the MCC mini busses on April 10, 2011 to spend a day looking at Chicago in a different way. We traveled back in time to 1893, the year of the “World Columbian Exposition.” Our interest was to explore the exhibition grounds, the remnants of the White City, and life during this period.
The MCC Sociology Department, along with Kathy Hayhurst, put together a phenomenal expedition to draw a closure for the first book of “The One Book One College” program, Devil in the White City. This vignette of the late 1800s included a trip to The Hull House museum, The Parthenon restaurant in Greektown, the Midway Plaisance (site of the first Ferris Wheel), Jackson Park to see the replica of “The Republic,” The Museum of Science and Industry (originally The Fine Arts Building), and the Osaka Gardens on the Wooded Island.
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| Some of the group at the Hull House museum |
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| On the Midway |
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| At the Museum of Science and Industry |
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| Inside at the Museum of Science and Industry |
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| At Osaka Gardens |
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| At Osaka Gardens |
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| At Osaka Gardens |
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| Eating at the Parthenon |
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| At The Republic statue |
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| The Sociology team with Kathy H. |
