Category Archives: Chicago Downtown


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Above Image: Untitled [called The Picasso] – By Pablo Picasso

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Public Art in Chicago Loop

Loop is the commercial center of downtown Chicago.
It is bounded on the west and north by the Chicago River, on the east by Lake Michigan, and on the south by Roosevelt Road,
although the commercial...

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CHICAGO: ART the GRANT PARK

Grant Park is often called Chicago's "Open Front Yard" .

This 319 acres of open space has a large number of sculptures, monuments, fountains, gardens.

At the NORTH END of Grant Park is the state-of-the-art Millennium Park. At the SOUTH END of the Grant Park is the world's largest Museum Campus, with three world...

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MILLENNIUM PARK

Conceived in 1997, Millenium Park was officially opened in July 2004.

It occupies about 24.5 acres in the northwest corner of Chicago’s Grant Park [319 acres].

This park is actually a garden on a roof-top. It was built to cover railway lines and automobile garage that provided an unpleasant view of  the city.

Now it's one...

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The Daphne Garden - by Dessa Kirk

Initailly installed in 2004 in Grant Park. Reinstalled in Northerly Island in 2006.

Location: Northerly Island

These three figurative sculptures of Daphne are all made from scraps of discarded Cadillac cars. One the the themes of this Chicago based artist of Dessa Kirk, is to find hidden beauty in ugliness.

In...

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