- MUSEUM NEW S RELEASE Ii SCIENCE., 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive INDUSTRY , 60637-2093 Weve got fun down to a science!"

For Immediate Release: June 10, 1998

-! For More Information Contact: Tracey Robinson-English, Public Relations Manager (773) 947-3740 Lori Lewis-Chapman, Public Relations Specialist, (773) 947-6005 Website: www.msichicago.org

WHAT'S NEW DEBUT PRESENTED BY JEWEL-OSCO CELEBRATES ALL THAT'S NEW AT THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

The construction is over, so let the celebrations begin!

The Museum of Science and Industry will kick off its four-day What's New Debut, a spectacular

schedule of events from July 16-19 to celebrate all that's new at the Museum. A new underground

parking garage, dynamic exhibits, user-friendly visit planning center and much more will dazzle visitors.

"It is with great pride and a true sense of accomplishment that we welcome you to experience a

milestone in the history of the Museum of Science and Industry, " said David Mosena, president and CEO

of the Museum.

On Thursday, July 16, the Museum will host a major media event beginning at 11 a.m. to

celebrate the opening of the new underground parking garage and Great Hall. Mayor Richard M. Daley,

Governor Jim Edgar and other political officials are scheduled to attend. Tours ofthe Museum's newest

permanent exhibit, "All Aboard the Silver Streak," featuring the Burlington Pioneer '\\111 be

available. Following the press event, the Great Hall will officially open to the public.

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-- / MUSEUM NEW S RELEASE SCIENCE• 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive INDUSTRY- Chicago, Illinois 60637-2093 We've got fun down to a science!"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Tracey Robinson-English, Public Relations Manager (773/947-3740) Lori Lewis-Chapman, Public Relations Specialist (773/947-6005) Museum Web Site: www.msichicago.org

RESTORED PIONEER ZEPHYR BECOMES EXHIBIT, CENTERPIECE OF MUSEUM'S NEW UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE

Not many parking garages double as a station for a train exhibit. But when the new

underground parking garage at the Museum of Science and Industry officially opens July 16,

1998, its centerpiece will be the restored Burlington Pioneer Zephyr. The Zephyr, the world's

first streamlined, diesel-electric, articulated train, first captured the world's attention on May

26, 1934 when it set a land speed record by hurtling non-stop from to Chicago in just

over 13 hours.

A platform resembling an actual train station will be erected along most of the 197-foot

length of the restored Zephyr, from engine cab to , allowing access to on-board

tours that will recreate the record-breaking run with animatronic and audiovisual

enhancements. In addition, exhibits around the train will feature displays on diesel technology,

streamlining, and the World's Fair.

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The Zephyr exhibit and tour-which will be seen by nearly all Museum visitors because of its location adjacent to the Museum's new underground ticketing lobby and entrance-will recreate the excitement that its record-breaking run gave to a country mired in the Great

Depression and illuminate the train's subsequent 26 years of service. It will highlight the period as a confluence of science, technology, and art; emphasize diesel-electric, material and stream-lining technologies; and illustrate that, while the American social, economic, and political climate of the 1930s contributed to its fame, the Zephyr project was only possible because imaginative, visionary and courageous officials made it so.

Following its historic Denver to Chicago run, the Burlington Pioneer Zephyr was toured by 1.5 million visitors at the Century of Progress exposition on Chicago's lakefront in

1934, and then served as a passenger train for 26 years. Donated to the Museum in 1960, the

Zephyr was displayed outside until late 1994, when it was moved to Northern Railcar, a railcar building and restoration company in , for more than 16,000 hours of painstaking restoration.

The restoration was timed to coincide with the construction of the Museum's new underground parking garage. The facility will offer 1,500 indoor spaces when completed in

July. The restored Zephyr will be housed in a climate-controlled glass shelter in the center of the lowest level of the garage. Visitors who park on the two upper levels will also be able to look down on the train because the glass structure housing the Zephyr will reach up to all three floors. RESTORED PIONEER ZEPHYR BECOMES EXillBIT, CENTERPIECE OF MUSEUM'S NEW UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE-page three ofthree

The new garage is part of MSI 2000, a comprehensive master plan for restoring and enhancing the Museum of Science and Industry, one of the world's premier educational and cultural institutions.

The Museum of Science and Industry is located at 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive and is open every day of the year except Christmas. Museum admission is $7 for adults, $6 for senior citizens (65 +) and $3.50 for children aged 3-11. Children under 3 are admitted free. Groups of 20 or more receive special discounts by calling (773) 684-1414, Ext. 2290.

Museum hours from Labor Day to Memorial Day are 9:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Monday through

Friday; 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., weekends and holidays. From Memorial Day through Labor

Day, the Museum is open 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Hours to be extended to 7:00 p.m. on

Friday, July 17 and Saturday July 18 as a part of the "What's New Debut" celebration. For more information or to plan a visit to the Museum, please call (773) 684-1414, or outside the

Chicago area, 1-800-GO TO MSI (1-800-468-6674). Information on the Museum can also be found on the World Wide Web at www.msichicago.org.

The Museum of Science and Industry is supported in part through the generosity of the people of Chicago through the Chicago Park District.

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Museum's garage isn't done, but it attracts a crowd

Tribune photos by Ovte Carter A worker trudges through the site of an underground garage museum visitor looks at a model display of what the being built at the Museum of Science and Industry (top). A museum willbe like when the work is completed. From the daily onlookers watching constructiopJ,9a.l>J:;otest by Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Museum of Science and Industry site has Captured people's attention.

By James Hill TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER The best way to get people to pay attention to something is by telling them not to look. It brings out that natural curiosity. ••• Add to it the extra curiosity of people who go to the Museum of Science and Industry, where Just about everymmg is on display, and you have the scene that transpires each day at the south lake- front institution. On the 57th Street side of the museum, adults and children peek through holes cut in the wooden fenc- ing, trying to catch a glimpse of what is going on inside. What's going on is construction of the museum's $43.75 million, three-level underground parking garage, and not all of the attention is favorable. A Feb. 10 demonstration led by civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson criti- cized the affirmative action policies of The three-level garage willhave 1,500 parking spaces and a 25,OOO-square-foot the construction project. Jackson ended main lobby with information and ticket areas and an expanded museum store. up spending a night in jail, but the firms involved promised to straighten looked through the fence. "It's kind of ens and waterproofs the sand and soft things out as best they could. fascinating to see, in a way. Right now, soils around the site. This practice is Despite that glitch, construction is common among lakefront underground moving on and the garage is scheduled it looks like they are making a big to open on schedule by late November swimming pool." projects, or early December. " The garage is about 70 feet below For those not interested in peering "They've had this fencing up for some street level. The giant pit is surrounded through a fence bole, a more traditional by massive walls of bentonite slurry, a display on the project, called "The Big time now, and I always take a peek Dig," is featured in the museum. inside just to see how far along the proj- c1aylike substance used because the" ect is," said David Wilshire, who attends museum is next to Lake Michigan. The In the museum's North Court, the the nearby University of Chicago, as he slurry displaces groundwater and hard- SEE GARAGE, PAGE 2

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funded largely by i $35 million Federal Highway Administration Garage grant. The remainder is split ~ONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 between the city and state. ~xbibit displays the geology of Park advocates have supported -underground construction, fea- the garage project because in tures live video from the con- place or the old parking lot will be .struction site, has a, photographic 6 acres of parkland adorned with '}:Iisplay showing how the museum sugar maple trees. "!!.rounds have changed and The centerpiece of the garage 'includes a play pit where children will be a special exhibit on the 'ages z -to 5 years old can build lowest level featuring the fully their own garages out of toy j-,locks. _ restored Burlington Pioneer Zephyr. ,..;:Starting April I, if weather per- :~i~s, visitors will be. given daily Jtottrs of the construction Site. "This train truly was the space :; The 1,500-space garage, with a shuttle of its time," said Joseph :iScheduled $3.50 parking fee, will Shacter, the museum's point man ·[replace the free 989-space surface for the exhibit. "We can't wait for ~1>!'onthe museum's north end. it to get here. It will be a fun and exciting exhibit fo r museum ;'The garage will have a workers and visitors." '25,OOO-square-footmain lobby with The Zephyr, built in the 1930s, 'information and ticket areas, an was the world's first streamline expanded museum store, a coat diesel electric train. It set a world room, storage tor, wheelchairs and speed record in 1934 with a non- strollers, a. members lounge, a stop trip from Denver to Chicago first-aid station and rest rooms. in 13 hours and 5 minutes, half . "I was concerned about the the time it took steam engines. €jimination of free parking at .tirst, but $3.50 isn't that bad," said The train is being restored in Jane Klusky, who was visitingthe Milwaukee and is expected to museum this week with her two arrive in July. When the display children. "If you are visiting the opens, museum visitors will be museum in the winter, the price able to view the train's stainless- really isn't bad." steel exterior. They also will be - The underground garage is the able to tour the inside, where spe- centerpiece of the museum's $160 cial effects will give visitors a million master plan, which simulated train ride. Entrance to includes proposals to expand the the exhibit will be included with Cr o wn Space Center on the the cost of parking and admission. -museum's east side and an educa- "This won't be your average tion center on the west side. The underground parking garage," cost of the garage project is being Shacter said. u,- UL.,)U CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chicago, IL Page 1 of 2

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Ron Lorenzini Jr. (left, above), owner Legendary train of the , and Don Bachman, head of Relco Locomotives makes long stop Inc., check out the train's observation car at the former Joliet Arsenal. Eric for restoration Bachman of Relco (from left, below) The Silver Mark Twain Zephyr is polished inspects the train with Dan Bachman for a future its owner hopes will be golden. and Lorenzini before it is towed By Rachel Melcer old original diesel-electric to Minooka for a TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER engine, install modern power yearlong restora- outlets, heating and cooling tion project. More than 6D years after it systems, and bring it up to first cut a silver streak Tribune photos current safety standards. byJonn Smierciak across the Midwest, the Mark By then, Lorenzini hopes to Twain Zephyr recently was have a reason for it to roll.: towed from a railroad at the defunct Joliet Arsenal He has had a few plans in to a locomotive repair shop the decade since he and a in Minooka. partner bought the Mark Twain Zephyr from a Kansas Though gutted and broken, City real estate developer. pockmarked by the many But none worked. Lorenzini stones thrown and bounced said the recession killed his oIT its veneer, 1990 plan to lure riverboat the streamlined, shovel-nosed casino owners into employ- train still looks quite mod- ing it for high-class gamblers' ern. junkets. And thoughts of con- That's good news for owner verting it into a stationary Ron Lorenzini Jr., a 37-year- restaurant alongside tracks old lawyer from Oak Brook in Downers Grove or DeKalb who has big plans for the fell through a couple of years Zephyr. ago. He paid about $5,000 to tow Lorenzini couldn't afford to a train-a locomotive and restore the train on his own. five cars that Lorenzini esti- So he joined with Bachman, mates is worth about $1 mil- who shares Lorenzini's love lion-to Releo Locomotives of railroading lore and desire Inc. of Minooka. That was to make a personal mark, just days before tracks at the and the project is back on former arsenal were to be . torn up as part of the com- pound's transformation into "!t's an opportunity to a tall-grass prairie, veterans restore and save something cemetery and industrial park. really unique," Lorenzini Lorenzini had stored it there said. "[The Zephyrs] meant so for the relatively low rent much in their day. I think and tight security. when we re-christen it, we're going to see the same interest Monday morning, Relco and enthusiasm." owner Don Bachman moved the , dubbed the Named for Zephyrus, the Injun Joe, into his shop to Greek god of the west wind, begin a costly, yearlong the were built to mechanical restoration. His revive the railroad industry .,:i11 •..n':"ll,'1C~ H<.; c.~.':(>q'"