World Fair Architects
Daniel Burnham: The leading architect behind Chicago's World Fair (major character)
John Root: Burnhams assistant to the exposition (major character)
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.: The inventor of the Ferris Wheel (major character)
Frank Millet: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Louis Sullivan: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Richard Morris Hunt: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Charles Mckim: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Frederick Law Olmsted: landscape architect; also designed the landscape for Central Park (major character)
John Root: Burnhams assistant to the exposition (major character)
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.: The inventor of the Ferris Wheel (major character)
Frank Millet: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Louis Sullivan: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Richard Morris Hunt: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Charles Mckim: helped work on the fair (minor character)
Frederick Law Olmsted: landscape architect; also designed the landscape for Central Park (major character)
Dr. H. H. Holmes and his associates
Herman Webster Mudgett a.k.a Dr. H. H. Holmes: (used many different alias' in order to protect himself) a serial killer who would lure in his victims with his charm and enchantment. In his devious plan he would take young women in to either work for him at his World Fair Hotel or ask them to stay there. In doing so, this is where he would kill them in a gas chamber, scientifically inspect the bodies and either selling them to hospitals or schools as cadavers or cremated them. Through all his tedious work he met many women who would soon fall under his spell
Clara A. Lovering: Holmes's first wife
Myrta Z. Belknap: Holmes's second wife
Lucy Holmes: Holmes's daughter with Myrta
Georgiana Yoke: Holmes's third wife
Julia Smythe: employee and lover of Holmes; wife of Ned Connor
Ned Connor: employee of Holmes; husband of Julia Smythe
Benjamin Pitezel: business associate (and murder victim) of Holmes
Howard Pitezel: son of Benjamin Pitezel, kidnapped and murdered by Holmes
Frank Geyer: detective in charge of finding Pitezel's children after Holmes was jailed for fraud
Thomas W. Barlow: assistant district attorney who prosecuted Holmes
Clara A. Lovering: Holmes's first wife
Myrta Z. Belknap: Holmes's second wife
Lucy Holmes: Holmes's daughter with Myrta
Georgiana Yoke: Holmes's third wife
Julia Smythe: employee and lover of Holmes; wife of Ned Connor
Ned Connor: employee of Holmes; husband of Julia Smythe
Benjamin Pitezel: business associate (and murder victim) of Holmes
Howard Pitezel: son of Benjamin Pitezel, kidnapped and murdered by Holmes
Frank Geyer: detective in charge of finding Pitezel's children after Holmes was jailed for fraud
Thomas W. Barlow: assistant district attorney who prosecuted Holmes