Millenium Park Added to List of Happy Hour Tours (original) (raw)

Architecture Wed Apr 01 2009

Remember when Millennium Park was just a gaping hole in the ground? The Chicago Architecture Foundation does, and now they're explaining how the park transformed from a parking lot to a vibrant urban park in a new tour, "Millennium Park Revealed," which will be added to the list of Happy Hour tours the CAF currently offers.

Happy Hour tours start at 5:30pm, when "Chicago's skyscrapers take on an almost magical glow," and end with a free drink. The cost is 16(16 (16(13 for students and seniors). Before the concluding cocktail, "Millennium Park Revealed" will go in-depth on why this area of the city was conspicuously left blank in the Burnham Plan of Chicago, what inspired Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate," and why -- did you know this? -- the park is actually the world's largest rooftop garden.

"Millennium Park Revealed" will run Tuesdays from May through September at happy hour, also Fridays and Sundays at 11am starting this Friday, if you're not overly concerned with hitting the sauce afterward.

A full list of the weekday Happy Hour tours is here.