ABSTRACT
The Century of Progress Exhibition, which was held on the shore of Lake Michigan at 23rd Street, in 1933-34, and which made a million dollars for its sponsors, struck him as exactly the kind of thing that was needed. The hall was to be a single structure, 250 feet wide and 1,200 feet long, with a total exhibition area of 360,000 square feet. One would create the Metropolitan Fair and Exhibition Authority as a municipal corporation, authorize it to issue revenue bonds, and enable the state and other political bodies to invest in its bonds. Two weeks after the Supreme Court decided the Fairbank case, a suit was brought to enjoin the Park District from leasing land to the Authority. The directors of the Park Fair had no money to buy land and no authority to build anywhere except at 23rd Street.
