The Bean Its Maker Called Stupid

Millennium Park and Cloud Gate, Chicago

3 min story9-stop walk

The story

You're standing in Millennium Park, on the plaza Chicagoans still sometimes call AT&T Plaza, though its name today is Grainger Plaza.

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Chicago · 9 stops · 1 h 30 min · 2.7 mi

1
The John Hancock Center
The Tower That Wears Its Bones OutsidePhoto: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
2
Fourth Presbyterian Church
The Church That Burned on Day OnePhoto: w_lemay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
3
The Chicago Water Tower
A Castle Built to Hide a PipePhoto: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
4
Tribune Tower
The Contest That Lost to Second PlacePhoto: daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
5
The Wrigley Building
The Gum King Bets on the Wrong SidePhoto: daryl_mitchell from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
6
DuSable Bridge
The Founder Missing From the CarvingsPhoto: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
7
Marshall Field's Windows
Notes on the Glass, Then a ClockPhoto: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
8
Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza
The Mayor's Son and the MarketPhoto: DR04, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
9You're here
Millennium Park and Cloud Gate
The Bean Its Maker Called StupidPhoto: Roman Boed from The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

Written from public sources, every claim checked against them, narrated by a synthetic voice.