The Devil In The White City

This next section I read was great but I think that there is a pattern in this book. I think that they make one chapter boring then they the next chapter they hit you with the most interesting chapter. This section was not so interesting because they give alot of dates and historical events that I don't care about and this chapter ewas confusing. It is called Pilgrimage sounds boring too. Well it wasn't that bad, but it talked about how Burnham had to go to New York to get good architects for the Worlds Fair because not many of the architects here are good enough to do a job of this scale. Everyone found out and they all thought that he was a traitor to his own city by bringing in people from another state to cooperate with them. The chicagoans didn't really like that, but there wasn't any time to let pride get in the way. I would've just let it go but these people were stubborn. Later, they all accepted but they still had a feeling that it wasn't going to work out for their indifferences. Everyone in the country thought that Chicago would've have the time to be able to make something so big because to make a structure of the size they were going to make it, it would take years but they had to finish in a matter of months. There was no support coming from the citizens even though they were all happy that Chicago won the contest for hosting the Worlds Fair. Everyone was saying that Chicago was ugly and that structure they were trying to built was going to disgrace the country. I thought that everyone hated Chicago then, I think that now Chicago is better in industry and pollution wise because in the book it explains how nasty and gray the sky would look from all the smoke. It sounded very ugly. There was also a part that caught my attention, was that many of Burnham and Roots partners are saying that both of them are hogging the fame and they deserve credit too. I think they are just trying to ruin everything with a scandal so the other architects would get the job and Burnham and Root would have to be out of a job.Some people are so vicious when it comes to fame and fortune. I think that when this world learns to control thier jealousy it would just a little bit nicer. All this competition is killing everyone. Someone always has to overpower somebody, or become more famous than somebody....Its sickening. :P