The City Of Chicago, A New City Block And Towering Three...

Duality Sprawling an entire city block and towering three stories above Englewood, a thriving suburb just south of Chicago, sat a building that would come to be known as the â€Å"Murder Castle†. Constructed during the gilded age of America, in an atmosphere of booming financial success that was bursting with real-estate development, job seekers, tycoons, and self-made millionaires who were held in high esteem. The city of Chicago still bustling from rebuilding after the great fire of 1871, became a torrent of vigor in preparation of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, World’s Fair. More than twenty-six million people from around the world were flooding Chicago. This was a perfect atmosphere to construct a building for which the entire world would come to know. It was 1886 when H.H. Holmes, who was formally known as Herman Webster Mudgett came to the city of Chicago. Throughout his lifetime Holmes had several other aliases that he used to elude numerous creditors and former acquaintances he feared would step forward with accusations of fraud, poisoning and murder, so deciding he would change his identity now going by Henry Howard Holmes. But, to the rest of the world he would forever become H.H. Holmes, torcher doctor, monster of 63rd street, America’s first serial killer. With the monumental World’s Fair attracting millions of people this was a perfect opportunity for H.H. Holmes to live out his nefarious dreams for which he could implement the demented design of the infamous