Millenium Park: http://www.millenniumpark.org/This is the Frank Gehry designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park. Frank Gehry also designed the modern art museum in Denver, Colorado. The botanical gardens are in the foreground.
This is the pavilion up close. I have seen orchestras at the pavilion and the sound is excellent.
The famous Cloud Gate sculpture by Anish Kapoor. This is at Millenium Park as well.
Ice skating near Michigan Avenue in the park.
The Cloud Gate sculpture from a distance.
This is the Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa. The following comes from the Millenium Park website: "The fountain consists of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers project video images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago citizens, a reference to the traditional use of gargoyles in fountains, where faces of mythological beings were sculpted with open mouths to allow water, a symbol of life, to flow out. Plensa adapted this practice by having faces of Chicago citizens projected on LED screens and having water flow through a water outlet in the screen to give the illusion of water spouting from their mouths. The collection of faces, Plensa's tribute to Chicagoans, was taken from a cross-section of 1,000 residents."
These are some Chinese sculptures on temporary display.
A Chicago policeman on horseback.
I try to visit the Art Institute of Chicago every time I make a visit home. The art museum houses over 300,000 works of art from all over the world.
Stairs to the elevated train on Wabash street. Chicago has an excellent network of public transportation.
This is the Sears Tower (I refuse to call it the Willis Tower) from Union Station. It is the tallest building in the United States and the fifth tallest building in the world.
This is a view of the city down the Chicago River from Union Station.
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