Millennium Park in Chicago

This nearly 25-acre urban park occupies land that was fallow in the early 2000s. Opened in 2004, Millennium Park, as its name suggests, celebrates the turn of the millennium (it was inaugurated four years late...).

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Located at the northwest end of Grant Park, Millennium Park is Chicago's open-air gallery. Around every bend in the shady paths, bold contemporary installations invite visitors to make them their own.

Cloud Gate in Chicago's Millennium Park

The Cloud Gate, a huge ball of polished metal in the shape of a giant bean, offers unprecedented reflections of the Chicago skyline, and no one can resist taking a picture of it.

Millennium is also home to the Crown Fountain, where the faces of Chicagoans are projected onto two giant towers that appear to spit jets of water into a black granite basin.

Millennium Park's Cloud Gate

Concerts and cultural events take place in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, a gigantic open-air concert hall. It has remarkable acoustics thanks to an ingenious system of speakers suspended at regular intervals from the metal arches that make up the pavilion's vaulted ceiling.

The Crown Fountain at the Millennium Park