In 1893, Chicago was getting ready to host the World’s Columbian Exposition. At the same time, a man named Herman Webster Mudgett, better known as H. H. Holmes, was running a building that would become one of America’s most famous crime scenes. The building stood in the Englewood neighborhood, about three miles from the fairgrounds that brought over 27 million visitors to the city.
As per Wikipedia, Holmes had moved to Chicago in 1886 and started working at a drugstore before buying the property. He built a three-story building with stores on the ground floor and apartments above. In 1892, he added a third floor and told investors he wanted to use it as a hotel for World’s Fair visitors. But the space was never finished or opened to guests.
