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A Field Trip Guide Bold Planner Profile Field Trip Guide Your name: Contents Map. 2 ______________________________ Notes.for.Teachers . 7 Today’s date: Notes.for.Big.Dreamers. 10 Features ______________________________ Millennium.Park.Train.Station. 14 Jay.Pritzker.Pavilion . 16 Things you like to do: Great.Lawn. .18 BP.Bridge. 20. ______________________________ Lurie.Garden. .22 ______________________________ Nichols.Bridgeway. 24. Crown.Fountain. 26 Your plans for the future: Cloud.Gate . 28 Millennium.Monument. 30. ______________________________ Your.Notes.on.Places.in.the.Park. .32 Blank.Pages.for.Shapes,.Questions,.. ______________________________ Ideas,.Observations,.Sketches,.Maps. 34. Your big idea for Chicago: ______________________________ This field trip guide was developed for the 2009 Burnham Plan Centennial as part of its Bold Plans, Big Dreams Education initiative supported by the Polk ______________________________ Bros. Foundation. Its goal is to help teachers and students make the city itself a vital part of the curriculum. ______________________________ This guide is available for download at www.burnhamplan100.org. 1 Nichols Bridgeway 2 3 Exelon Pavilions: Millennium Park Welcome Center BP Bridge McCormick Tribune Plaza and Ice Rink The four Exelon Pavilions, which use state-of-the- Connecting Millennium Park to Daley Bicentennial Located on Michigan Avenue between Madison art technology to convert solar energy into Plaza, this 925-foot-long winding bridge (Frank and Washington streets, the Plaza offers visitors one MILLENNIUM P electricity, are an integral part of Chicago's efforts Gehry's first) provides incomparable views of the of the best views of Chicago's famed Michigan to become the most environmentally-friendly city Chicago skyline, Grant Park and Lake Michigan. Clad Avenue streetwall. The 16,000-square-foot Ice in North America. Together, the Pavilions provide in brushed stainless steel panels, the BP Bridge Skating Rink operates from mid-November to enough electricity annually to power 16 energy-efficient houses in complements the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in function as well as design mid-March (weather permitting). Skate rental, a warming lobby and Chicago. by creating an acoustic barrier from the traffic noise below. public lockers are available. In the summer, parkgoers can enjoy al fresco dining. The northwest and northeast Pavilions are minimalist black cubes The Lurie Garden designed to complement the neighboring Joan W. and Irving B. Designed by Kathryn Gustafson, Jennifer Guthrie, AT&T Plaza/Cloud Gate Harris Theater for Music and Dance. The northwest Pavilion houses Shannon Nichol, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel, this The Plaza anchors the site of celebrated British artist the Millennium Park Welcome Center, as well as an Exelon energy 2.5-acre garden pays homage to the City's motto, Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in display area. The northeast Pavilion provides pedestrian access to "Urbs in Horto" (City in a Garden), which refers to the United States. The 110-ton elliptical Cloud Gate the parking garage below. Chicago's transformation from flat and marshy sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly origins to a bold and powerful city. Highlights of the Garden include polished stainless steel "plates," which reflect the The two Exelon Pavilions on the park's south end also provide pedestrian the 15-foot-high "Shoulder Hedge". This physical representation of city's famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch access to the Millennium Park Garage, and were designed by architect Sandburg's famous description of the "City of Big Shoulders" encloses provides a “gate” to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, Renzo Piano to complement The Art Institute's future expansion. the garden on two sides and protects more than 138 varieties of inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image perennial plants. A graceful hardwood footbridge over shallow water reflected back from a variety of perspectives. Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for divides the garden diagonally between "light" and "dark" plates. Music and Dance Wrigley Square and Millennium Monument This popular venue is home to several mid- Chase Promenade (peristyle) sized music and dance companies, with A three-block-long walkway lined by nearly 200 The Millennium Monument, designed by OWP/P, is a performances ranging from ballet and African trees, the Promenade spans the center of Millennium nearly full-size replica of the peristyle which was dance to classical, chamber and folk music. The Park from Monroe to Randolph Streets. Chicagoans originally in the same location between 1917 and 1,525-seat theater was designed by Hammond and visitors are invited to enjoy exhibitions, festivals 1953. Its columns are made of Indiana limestone Beeby Rupert Ainge (HBRA) Architects and boasts excellent sight and other family events on this eight acres of parkland. while the base is built from French limestone. In lines and acoustics. appreciation of the park's founders, their names are etched into the Boeing Galleries base. Wrigley Square's tree-lined area is an inviting space for visitors McDonald’s Cycle Center The Boeing Galleries, designed by HarleyEllis, to relax, stroll and view the monument. This 300-space, heated indoor bicycle parking add formal space for public exhibitions to the facility designed by Muller & Muller, Ltd. provides park's mid-level terraces. The Galleries are lined on To learn more about Millennium Park, please visit the lockers, showers, a snack bar with outdoor summer either side by a row of graceful sycamore trees—a Millennium Park Welcome Center. The Welcome Center is located seating, bike repair, bike rental, bike parking and rarity in Chicago. Additional seating is provided by at 201 E. Randolph Street in the Northwest Exelon Pavilion and is other amenities designed to encourage biking to a series of black granite steps along each gallery's east side, while open daily. ARK the Park and work. a precast staircase connects the South Gallery with the beloved Crown Fountain. The Millennium Park Greeters offer free informal walking tours Jay Pritzker Pavilion of Millennium Park from the Welcome Center, seasonally and as weather permits. Winner of the Pritzker Prize in Architecture and the The Crown Fountain National Medal of Art, Frank Gehry applied his Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and inspired Visitors are also invited to take the audio tour and listen to the signature style to this revolutionary outdoor by the people of Chicago, the Crown Fountain consists voices of the people who built the park describe the idea, its concert venue. The Pavilion stands 120-feet-high, of two 50-foot glass block towers at each end of a evolution and its art. The Audio Tour is available as a free MP3 with a billowing "headdress" of brushed stainless shallow reflecting pool. The towers project video download from www.millenniumpark.org. steel ribbons that frame the proscenium opening and connect to images from a broad social spectrum of Chicago an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports citizens, a reference to the traditional use of gargoyles in fountains. The For additional information about the park please visit the sound system, which mimics the acoustics of a concert hall by Fountain, which anchors the southwest corner of Millennium Park at www.millenniumpark.org or call 312.742.1168. distributing enhanced sound equally to the 4,000 fixed seats, and Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street, is a favorite of both children and For Chicago visitor information call toll free 1.877.CHICAGO over the Great Lawn, which accommodates an additional 7,000 families. The water is on from mid-spring through mid-fall each year or visit www.877chicago.com. people. (weather permitting,) while the images remain on year-round. City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Richard M. Daley, Mayor Lois Weisberg, Commissioner Sponsored by The Chicago Office of Tourism 5/09, 100M 4 5 Map Notes for Teachers Look at the map of Millennium Park. Park History From the 1850’s through the late 20th century, the site that is now occupied Can you find the place where you are? by Millennium Park was controlled by the Illinois Central Railroad. In Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago he considered the railroad property Look up and see what else is around you. Can you find any to be so untouchable that he developed the Grant Park portion of the plan of those features on the map? around it. Construction began on Grant park in 1917. The first areas to be If you had to use the restroom, could you find the nearest constructed were the narrow strips between Michigan Avenue and the one? railroad tracks extending from Randolph Street to 11th Street. The original Peristyle was built at this time at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street. Stand facing Lake Michigan. What direction are you facing? With the completion of Grant park, the railroad area remained a blight in its corner. In 1977 four Chicago civic groups proposed the “Lakefront Gardens for the Performing Arts.” The proposed park, which included a performing arts pavilion, lacked both a funding strategy and significant government support. Ultimately, the Petrillo Music Shell was built in Grant Park as a compromise between the civic groups and the Chicago Park District. In 1997 Mayor Richard M. Daley directed his staff to develop plans for a new music venue to be built over the active tracks and surface parking lot. What is now Millennium Park was first conceived in 1998 with the mission of creating new parkland in Grant Park to transform the unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots that had long dotted the lakefront. Today, with its unprecedented combination of architecture, monumental sculpture and landscape design, the 24.5 acre Millennium Park has become the crowning achievement for Chicago in the tradition of its original founders.