"The Cold-Blooded Fact"
- Four months to go until the fair's Opening Day, and the extreme Chicago cold increases risk of fire.
- Ferris begins construction of his wheel on the frozen ground.
- Harry Codman, Olmsted's protégé, dies of appendicitis.
- Olmsted asks a former assistant, Charles Eliot, to help. Together, they create the newly renamed firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot.
- Olmsted is especially worried that the exposition might turn out to be a complete failure. Time is short and the blizzardy weather is terrible.