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7 Millennium Park
Map D4. 55 N Michigan Ave. Tel (312)
742-1168. q Madison. Open 6am–
11pm daily. 8 free tours at
11:30am & 1pm daily. 7 0 -
∑ millenniumpark.org
The award-winning center for
art, music, architecture, and
landscape design opened in
2004 on 24.5 acres (10 ha) of
former railroad property. The The Neo-Classical façade of the Art Institute of Chicago
park is bordered by Michigan
Avenue, Columbus Drive, and Video images of the faces of 8 The Art Institute
Randolph and Monroe Streets. 1,000 local residents rotate of Chicago
The nearby Welcome Center, at over the two 50-ft- (15-m-) tall
201 East Randolph Street, is a towers of glass blocks which Map D4. 111 S Michigan Ave. Tel (312)
good place to find out about make up the interactive Crown 443-3600. q Adams. @ 1, 3, 6, 7,
what the park has to offer. Fountain designed by Spanish 126, 145, 147, 151. £ Van Buren St.
Unusual design elements artist Jaume Plensa. Water Open 10:30am–5pm daily (to 8pm
Thu). Closed Jan 1, Thanksg., Dec 25.
within the park include Frank pours out of the towers from & (under 14s free; separate adm to
Gehry’s spectacular Jay Pritzker spring to fall, landing in a some exhibits). 7 8 0 = h
Pavilion, with its roof of massive, shallow reflecting pool that is Exhibits, lectures, films. ∑ artic.edu
curling, stainless-steel ribbons, popular with local families.
that looms 120 ft (37 m) high. Other unique features within The extensive collections at
This outdoor concert venue the park are the contemporary the Art Institute of Chicago
hosts the Grant Park Music 5-acre (2-ha) Lurie Garden with repr esent nearly 5,000 years of
Festival series of concerts each its dramatically lit hedges and creativity through paintings,
summer, as well as other free perennial garden, and British sculptures, textiles, photo-
concerts and events. Another artist Anish Kapoor’s Cloud graphs, cultural objects, and
Gehry-designed ribbon of the Gate sculpture, which decorative artifacts. Founded
same material forms a 925-ft- resembles a giant drop of by civic leaders and art patrons
(282-m-) long-, winding bridge mercury and allows visitors to in 1879 as the Chicago
that connects the park to Daley view themselves as a part of Academy of Fine Arts, the
Bicentennial Plaza. the Chicago skyline. museum became the Art
0 The Loop
Marquette Building, an early
The Loop gets its name from the elevated track system skyscraper (1895), was designed by
that circles the center of downtown. Screeching trains William Holabird and Martin Roche,
and a steady stream of people add to its bustle. In the central Chicago School figures and
canyon vistas, through the historic buildings and architects of more than 80 buildings
in the Loop.
modern edifices, you can catch glimpses of the bridges
spanning the Chicago River. The renovation of ware­
houses and historic theaters is helping to enliven the
Loop at night.
190 South LaSalle Street (1987), Willis Tower S T R E E T
designed by Philip Johnson, has a C L A R K
white-marble lobby with a gold-leafed,
vaulted ceiling.
A D A M S S T R E E T
The Rookery, designed by
Burnham and Root in 1888,
typifies the Richardsonian F R A N K L I N
Romanesque style. W A C K E R

Chicago Board of Trade occupies a S T R E E T
45-story Art Deco building, a statue of Ceres D R I V E
atop its roof. The frenetic action inside can
be observed from a viewers’ gallery.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp422–4 and pp425–7

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