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A Summer Day at Millennium Park Chicago

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People walk on a wooden bridge towards a metallic sculpture, with modern skyscrapers and a cloudy sky in the background.

Chicago for the weekend, and the main event was Millennium Park — 24.5 acres off Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe, only open since last year, so everything still has that new-park sheen. We came in over the winding wooden footbridge, which puts you at eye level with the stainless steel of the Pritzker Pavilion and its trellis of steel arcs strung out over the lawn. Hard to tell where the bandshell ends and the sculpture begins, which seems to be the point. The clouds went nearly black over the Loop while we were on the bridge, but it never actually rained on us.

We stopped for a picture together in the Lurie Garden, which is already grown in enough to hide the traffic.

Later we walked up the lakefront toward Navy Pier as the sky finally cleared — the beach below Lake Shore Drive still had people in the water into the evening, and the wind off Lake Michigan had her hair going in every direction at once. Back at the hotel you can look straight down the street canyon and watch the cars stack up at the lights.

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