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Cloud Gate. Chicagoans refer to it as "the bean" -- a wonderful reflective sculpture in Millennium
Park which reflects the city skyline and people who stand beside it or under it. |
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Great Hall of the Field Museum of Natural History located on the lake,
walking distance from downtown. The Field Museum is in a museum park where you can visit the
Shedd Aquarium (which has an Amazon River Basin exhibit and Pacific Northwest
setting for dolphins and whales and a dolphin show) and the Adler
Planetarium with its three sky shows. |
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Buckingham Fountain located in Grant
Park along the lake, just east of Monroe Harbor and just to the west of
Millenium Park. Grant Park has a concert stage, the venue used for
many festivals. Grant Park also has a rose garden. |
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| Oak Street beach, close to the AGM hotel, a popular
sitting, swimming, and walking beach which is free and has wonderful sand. |
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A Picasso statue in a plaza in front of City Hall and the Federal
Building downtown. Many speeches, walks, protests, rallies begin
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