Inspiration can strike like lightning, or it can sneak up on a person. Few know that better than Dawn Raffel, whose latest book 'Boundless as the Sky' takes inspiration from Chicago and its 1933-34 World's Fair. rickkogan has more.
Dawn Raffel's new book “Boundless as the Sky” is set during the Century of Progress world's fair on our lakefront.
Now arrives “Boundless as the Sky” , a marvelous and arresting book that takes a fictional dive into the fair.ImageLooking north from the bottom left of the midway are the famous Travel and Transport Building, the Chrysler Motors Building and Northerly Island at top right, where the Sky Ride can be faintly seen.
In short, at a time when hospitals were incapable of or disinterested in caring for premature babies, Couney used the then-controversial technology of human incubators to entertain crowds. In the process, he saved, here and in exhibitions elsewhere, more than 7,000 babies, some of whom Raffel met as adults during her research.Gen. Italo Balbo as he landed his seaplane on the lakefront July 15, 1933.
Gen. Italo Balbo, an airman for Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, in Chicago on July 17, 1933.
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