Millennium Park - Enhanced Audio Tour
By Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture
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Podcast Description
PHOTO ENHANCED VERSION Chicago’s Millennium Park is an unparalleled center for art, music, architecture and landscape design. Now you can explore the 24.5 acre Park with its creators as your guide, including architect Frank Gehry, and artists Anish Kapoor and Jaume Plensa. Discover how and why Millennium Park was built. Learn the secrets that lie beneath the Park floor, and hear the reasons why Millennium Park is one of the world’s most spectacular new public spaces. With the Millennium Park self-guided audio tour, you can go at your own pace and listen in any order you choose. This tour is available in additonal languages at www.downloadchicagotours.com.
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00 Introduction | Introduction to the MIllennium Park Audio Tour | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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00 Stop List | This is a list of all the sections of this audio tours. With the Millennium Park self-guided audio tour, you can go at your own pace and listen in any order you choose. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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01 Exelon Pavilions | The four Exelon Pavilions, which use state-of-the art technology to convert solar energy into electricity, are an integral part of Chicago’s efforts to become the most environmentally-friendly city in North America. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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02 Harris Theater | From September to May, the non-profit Harris Theater partners with Chicago’s performing arts and cultural institutions, bringing music and dance to the public. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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03 Bike Station | The McDonald's Cycle Center in Millennium Park has something for everyone: bicycle rentals, bike tours and Segway Tours, plus lockers, showers, bike repair, and other amenities designed to encourage biking to the Park and other downtown locations. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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04 Jay Pritzker Pavilion | The Frank Gehry designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 people. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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05 BP Bridge | Clad in brushed stainless steel panels, Frank Gehry’s BP Bridge complements the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in function as well as design by creating an acoustic barrier from the traffic noise below. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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06 Lurie Garden | Designed by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol Ltd, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel, this five acre garden pays homage to the City's motto, "Urbs in Horto" (City in a Garden), which refers to Chicago's transformation from its flat and marshy origins to a bold and powerful city. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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07 Chase Promenade | A three-block-long walkway lined by nearly 200 trees, the Chase Promenade spans the center of Millennium Park from Monroe to Randolph streets. Chicagoans and visitors are invited to enjoy exhibitions, festivals and other family events on these eight acres of the Park. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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08 Cloud Gate | Anish Kapoor’s 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a "gate" to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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09 Wrigley Square | Located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, the tree-lined area of Wrigley Square in Millennium Park is an inviting open space for visitors to relax on the lawn or stroll paths. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 McCormick Tribune Plaza | From mid-November to mid-March, the McCormick Tribune Plaza is home to the 16,000 square foot ice skating rink, offering visitors one of the best views of architecture in Chicago’s famed Michigan Avenue streetwall. In the summer, visitors can enjoy al fresco dining on the plaza at the Park Grill Restaurant. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 Crown Fountain | Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park is a major addition to the city's world-renowned public art collection. 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. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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99 Cultural Programs | Learn about the hundreds of free cultural programs including concerts, exhibitions, tours, and family activities in Millennium Park. | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 14 Episodes |
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- Category: Places & Travel
- Language: English
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