Toward Triumph
- Millet designates October 9, 1893 as Chicago Day.
- Approximately seven hundred and fifty thousand people attend that day, exceeding the Paris record of just under four hundred thousand visitors.
- In fact, more people attend Chicago Day at the fair than any single day of a peaceable event in history (prior to 1893).
- Chicago Day attendance generates a surplus that eliminates the exposition's debt.
- Now all Burnham has to do is prepare for the grand closing ceremony at the end of the month. Oh, and secure his place in architectural history as the best of the best.