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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsA Second World%u2019s Fair for Chicago (Continued)A Closing Day ticket stub.Oversized Business Card for M&C Italian Foods, Inc.Reduced facsimile of back a right.postcards, others small sets, that were especially produced for them by Chicago firms such as Curt Teich and Donnelley, or were created by publishers in their home geographic areas. Closing DayAs noted previously, when the Fair opened, it was scheduled to last for just a single season%u2014150 days%u2014with a closing date scheduled for November 12. But because it proved to be such a gloriously popular and prosperous undertaking, it was extended into a second season, from May 26 to October 31, 1934.Proudly, the Fair Committee could boast that by the end of the first season, half of the Fair%u2019s debts had been paid off. And by the time of the final closing in 1934, there was no debt remaining whatsoever. In fact, A Century of Progress made a profit%u2014and it was the first World%u2019s Fair ever to do so. Between the organization%u2019s expenditures, and the expenses of all the exhibitors and concessionaires, the total production cost was over $40 million%u2014plus