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A Century of Progress %u2022 Vintage PostcardsA Second World%u2019s Fair for ChicagoRufus C. Dawes was featured on the cover of TIME when the Fair opened.One of several poster for the Fair.Chicago%u2019s Columbian Exposition was meant to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus%u2019 discovery of the New World. However, it opened a year late, on May 1, 1893%u2014the 401st anniversary of the momentous event. No matter, the Exposition turned out to be such a huge success, it led civic-minded Chicagoans to plan another World%u2019s Fair for 1933%u2014this time to honor Chicago%u2019s 100th anniversary. The second fair proved so popular, that its run was extended through 1934.Designing the FairRecruited to become president of the Fair%u2019s Executive Committee, oil tycoon Rufus C. Dawes served with ten other prominent local citizens. Among them was a woman%u2014Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank. She was a blueblooded pillar of Chicago society, a champion for women%u2019s rights and woman%u2019s suffrage, as well as being a very gifted writer. So talented were her writing skills, that one of her seven novels was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. With a keen awareness of how to garner publicity while still retaining a lady-like demeanor, she once rode a white charger down Michigan Avenue to promote one of her causes. In short, she was not a token female on the Committee, but a skilled and valuable member of the otherwise all-male group, who was able to offer alternative ideas and viewpoints.The official name of the nonprofit corporation that was formed in January 1928 was The Chicago Second World%u2019s Fair Centennial Celebration. However, this eventually morphed into a less cumbersome and more up-beat A Century of Progress. This was during the middle of Prohibition%u2014an era of bootleggers, speakeasies, gangsters,