Donation Options Search Search Search The new Ferris wheel at Brookfield Zoo Chicago is a towering 110-foot-tall ride erected to celebrate the zoo’s 90th anniversary year. The wheel, which is ...

Ron and Cougar Peck – Ferris' great-great-great-great-nephews. They took a ride with us on the Centennial Wheel in Chicago. Saberi asked, "When you see all the kids getting off of this wheel ...

From 1995 until October 2015, the Ferris wheel was located at Chicago’s Navy Pier, where about 17 million people rode it, said Craig Wescott, CEO of The Track. The disassembled wheel moved to ...

North Coast Music Festival has announced the first ... will also include the indoor laser stage of The Chill Dome, a Ferris wheel, Incendia’s Fire Pit Stage and a return of the Yacht Club ...

The first thing you'll spot once you set foot on the pier is the towering Ferris wheel (which stands 196 ... you can spend some time cruising the Chicago River on a sightseeing or speedboat ...

Julie Bosman reports from Chicago for The New York Times. First-time visitors to Chicago can find themselves awe-struck by the sheer scale of the place: the grand skyline, the vastness of Lake ...

In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into ... he said. Ferris was hardly the first to imagine such a wheel.

Ferris wheels have been popular since George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., a 33-year-old engineer, designed one for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. More than a century later ...

Is a bridge in northern Indiana built from the ruins of the very first Ferris wheel? In 1893, Chicago was hoping to make an attraction that would surpass the Eiffel Tower's success at the Paris ...