Just across the street from the Cultural Center is Millenium Park. I don't know how this park was funded but it is magnificent. Frank Gehry designed the amphitheater and bridge across to what will be the Mary Daley Park (named after the wife of a previous mayor).
14,000 people can listen to the free concerts they have in this pavillion almost every night beginning at 6:30.
So this guy Jay Pritzker was a Chicago billionaire who established the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the family must have funded this amphiteater and bridge because he died in 1999.
Within the park is this Lurie Garden. I assume funded by the Lurie family or foundation. There was a competition to determine whose design was implemented. This place is really fabulous.
This is a sculpture entitled Cloud Gate but nicknamed by Chicagoans the jelly bean. The creator was a Japanese and didn't know what a jelly bean was.
A sign encountered at a hot dog stand in the park.
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