<P> In 1890 , Chicago won the honor of hosting the World 's Columbian Exposition . In 1891 , Jackson Park was selected as its site . Olmsted and Chicago 's architect and planner , Daniel H. Burnham , with his partner John Wellborn Root , laid out the fairgrounds . A team of architects and sculptors created the `` White City '' of plaster buildings and artworks in Beaux - Arts style . The historic World 's Fair opened to visitors on May 1 , 1893 . It was Root 's last project , as he caught pneumonia and died in January 1891 , two years before the fair 's opening . After the fair closed , the site was transformed back into parkland , as the fair buildings were not designed to be permanent structures . Jackson Park featured the first public golf course west of the Alleghenies , which opened in 1899 . </P>
<P> In 1890 , Chicago won the honor of hosting the World 's Columbian Exposition . In 1891 , Jackson Park was selected as its site . Olmsted and Chicago 's architect and planner , Daniel H. Burnham , with his partner John Wellborn Root , laid out the fairgrounds . A team of architects and sculptors created the `` White City '' of plaster buildings and artworks in Beaux - Arts style . The historic World 's Fair opened to visitors on May 1 , 1893 . It was Root 's last project , as he caught pneumonia and died in January 1891 , two years before the fair 's opening . After the fair closed , the site was transformed back into parkland , as the fair buildings were not designed to be permanent structures . Jackson Park featured the first public golf course west of the Alleghenies , which opened in 1899 . </P>
what happened to the chicago world 's fair buildings
what happened to the chicago world 's fair buildings
transformed back into parkland
transformed back into parkland