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A Happy Week
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The Birth Of A Park
I WAS LIVING OUT OF STATE WHEN MILLENNIUM PARK WAS announced and constructed, so I missed all the hoopla of its opening in 2004. But not long after I moved back to Chicago in 2011, I took my visiting parents and my family downtown to see the Bean and
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The Making Of millennium Park
When it opened in July 2004, Millennium Park was four years behind schedule and $340 million over budget. But all of that was quickly subsumed by the magnitude of the accomplishment. The 24.5-acre showpiece has become the city’s unrivaled top attract