Place to see: Chicago Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Postcards about Chicago Millennium Park:

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  11 January 2008
  From:
  karen wade

  Whenever family or friends come to visit we take the Metra downtown and head straight to Millennium Park to see "The Bean" Cloud Gate sculpture and play in the Crown Fountain water and video installation. Then after relaxing a bit at the Great Lawn, we head to the Park Grill Restaurant for a fabulous late lunch. After a day with lots of walking, laughing, and great food, it's back to the Metra for the train ride home to the suburbs.

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  2 July 2008
  From:
  Prajit Ravindran

  Millennium park in Chicago hosts the Cloud Gate.Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.

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  10 June 2008
  From:
  Jessica Feis

  I've been to Chicago many times to visit my brother, but it was only the last summer that I discovered Millennium Park. For him, it's a loud, crowded place to be avoided, filled with kids and tourists. For me, it was a wonderland filled with cutting edge artistic achievement. Who wouldn't love a huge video installation of Chicago citizens smiling, blinking and spitting water? Who wouldn't love a huge stainless steel bean that reflects the dazzling cityscape beyond? Sure, it's filled with kids and tourists (like me!) but Millennium Park is not to be missed.