Park
Jackson Park
Lakefront park and World's Fair grounds where a dime sausage stand launched a hot dog empire.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jackson Park in Chicago opens at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, when some twenty-seven million visitors passed through its fairgrounds. Along the mile-long Midway Plaisance, two Austrian-Hungarian brothers-in-law ran a stand grilling homemade beef sausages for a dime apiece. It follows what became of that stand after the fair closed, alongside two other snack fortunes born on the same midway, including a young William Wrigley junior handing out gum samples nearby. Little of the fair survives, but you're standing on the same lagoons and lawns.
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