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Key to Main Sights
1 Harris Theater for Music and 4 AT&T Plaza 8 Great Lawn
Dance 5 South Terrace and Crown Fountain 9 Jay Pritzker Pavillion
2 Wrigley Square 6 Chase Promenade 0 BP Bridge
3 McCormick-Tribune Ice Rink 7 Lurie Garden q Nichols Bridgeway
t Millennium Park includes a special sound a pleasant landscape of plants
system that reaches the whole and flowers. This extensive garden
Bounded by Randolph & Monroe sts.,
Michigan Ave., & Columbus Dr. audience. The Pavilion is the was the result of an international
Map 4 D1. Tel (312) 742-1168. home of several summer music design competition and has
q Madison; Randolph. 8 Park: festivals. It can accommodate become a popular meeting place.
6am–11pm daily. - h Concerts. up to 14,000 people, while its The Crown Fountain consists
∑ millenniumpark.org stage allows for up to 120 of two 50-ft (15-m) towers that
musicians and a chorus of 150 project video images of Chicago
A project to celebrate the singers to perform at the same citizens, whose mouths open to
21st century, Millennium Park time. Nearby, connecting the spout water on those visitors
has provided year-round Great Lawn with the third floor splashing below.
recreational opportunities of the Art Institute’s Modern The McCormick-Tribune Ice-
since it opened in summer Wing, is the Nichols Bridgeway. rink converts to an outdoor
2004. A northern expansion The 1,500-seat Harris Theater restaurant and activity plaza in
of Grant Park (see pp86–7), it for Music and Dance was built the summer, becoming a venue
covers more than 1 million sq ft mostly below ground so as not for Chicago’s summer dance
(93,000 sq m). This park-within- to obscure views through the program (see p164).
a-park has transformed an park. Designed by Hammond Beside the Ice Rink is the
unsightly rail yard and parking Beeby Rupert Ainge, the theater AT&T Plaza, featuring the
lot into a world-class cultural offers ballet and other dance huge Cloud Gate sculpture by
destination for families, tourists, performances, in addition to renowned British artist Anish
and convention-goers. classical, chamber, opera, and Kapoor. This giant elliptical
The showpiece is the outdoor folk music. structure (nicknamed The Bean)
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, which was Designed to pay homage to has a highly polished surface,
designed by internationally the city’s motto Urbs in Horto which is designed to reflect the
acclaimed architect Frank Gehry (City in a Garden), the Lurie park and surroundings. It is
in association with the park’s Garden, with its graceful wooden Kapoor’s first public work
own designers. The bandshell footbridge and groves of trees, is installed in the US.

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