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In his book 'Devil in the White City' Erik Larson mentions that, for the 1893 World's Fair, entire villages from around the world were brought to Chicago 'including their inhabitants' to be used as exhibits. Assuming this is true, what would have happened to those people at the end of the Fair?

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In his book 'Devil in the White City' Erik Larson mentions that, for the 1893 World's Fair, entire villages from around the world were brought to Chicago 'including their inhabitants' to be used as exhibits. Assuming this is true, what would have happened to those people at the end of the Fair?	1879