sentences:  Burnham Park was chosen for the site of the Century of Progress world's fair and a yacht basin was built south of 51st Street.In 1933 and 1934, the Century of Progress International Exposition was held in Burnham Park.In the mid-1930s, the Chicago Park District used funds from the federal Works Progress Administration to complete landfill operations and install landscaping at Promontory Point by renowned designer Alfred Caldwell, a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology.