Depictions in Popular Culture
- Literature
- Nelson Algren's 1935 novel Somebody in Boots features the Chicago World's Fair of 1933–34, with the Century of Progress being described as "the brief city sprung out of the prairie and falling again into dust."
- Jean Shepherd wrote about attending the Century of Progress as a boy in In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
- Cinema
- The Century of Progress is depicted in the films Massacre starring Richard Dix, and in Buddy (1998) starring Rene Russo.
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