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Millennium Park

  • Image of the Chicago Skyline featuring skycrapers taken from within the pavillion

    Pritzker Pavilion. Photo by Peter J. Sieger

Celebrate Millennium Park's 20th anniversary with a tour that reveals the park’s evolution from a rail yard to an urban masterpiece.

This tour currently has no scheduled dates.

  • Image of the Chicago Skyline featuring skycrapers taken from within the pavillion

    Pritzker Pavilion. Photo by Peter J. Sieger

Special limited release from the vault: Learn how architects, artists and engineers collaborated with Chicago’s movers and shakers to transform a railroad yard and parking lot into a magnificent park that has thrilled millions and become the envy of cities around the world.

Duration
1.5 hours
Site Type
Parks
Location
Downtown
Architects and Styles
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Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E Wacker Drive

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Millennium Park, CAC is offering this tour for a limited time. Though you may have visited the park before, our in-depth tour is sure to enhance your knowledge and experience. Understand the inspiration behind Anish Kapoor's huge, reflective Cloud Gate sculpture (nicknamed "The Bean"); Jaume Plensa's ever-changing, high-tech Crown Fountain; and Frank Gehry's exuberant, sculptural Jay Pritzker Music Pavilion and BP Bridge.

You’ll also discover the many ways Lurie Garden symbolizes Chicago history and how Millennium Park became one of the world's largest green roofs.

  • Image of a large tall rectangular structure that has a face on the front with water coming out of the mouth of the person. Behind the fountain there are buildings and people are standing in front of it.

    Crown Fountain

  • Image of a garden full of purple flowers on the foreground and a skyline of skyscrapers in the background

    Lurie Garden

  • Large metal sloped structure sits on green grass with skyscrapers in the background

    BP Bridge. Photo by Dennis O'Neill.

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