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The faces in the fountain: Millennium Park's Crown Fountain still watching over Chicago after 20 years Its two LED video-screen towers, designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, showcase more than ...
Jaume Plensa, the Spanish sculptor responsible for Millennium Park’s Crown Fountain, has a new gallery show, “Nocturne”, at Gray Warehouse in Chicago, Tuesday, December 8, 2020. But Crown ...
Yes, it’s cool. It’s a fountain, well actually maybe more of a spout. And it comes out of a face. Well, the mouth of a face and the face is moving and you can stand under it and get wet… ...
Even Lester Crown, the patriarch of the billionaire family that shelled out $10 million of the $17 million cost of the fountain, balked at the final estimate for Plensa’s piece after initially ...
On a hot summer day in downtown Chicago, expect lots of "splashing around" at the Crown Fountain, as 10-year-old Lexi Peponis pointed out. "It's cold," added 8-year-old Kate Jenny.
If the breeze is just right, you just might catch a little mist in your face! The Centennial Fountain commemorates the reversal of the Chicago River, so try to squeeze in a mini history lesson while ...
Families turned out on the first day that Chicago Park District pools opened. Others had a splash at the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. The city could reach 90 degrees for seven straight days ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- For the second time in a month, a child using a wheelchair has been asked to leave the Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park. The latest incident, involving an 11-year-old ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- A child was recently told to leave the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, all because of a disability. As CBS 2's Steven Graves reported Thursday night, we found out it should ...
REGISTER NOW for Becker’s Annual Hospital Meeting this May 15-17, 2014 and take advantage of Millenium Park, just steps away from the meeting’s hotel headquarters: Swissotel Chicago. At Cloud ...
CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — A child was recently told to leave the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, all because of a disability. As CBS 2’s Steven Graves reported Thursday night, we found out ...