Introduction to Millennium Park Inc. 1992-present

Author: Millennium Park Inc.

Description: 15 13 VHS videos, 755 photographs, 6 CDS linear feet :

Subject: Jay Pritzker Pavilion (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Lurie Garden (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Crown Fountain (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Cloud Gate (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Boeing Galleries (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Millenium Monument (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Harris Theater (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Exelon Pavilions (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.
Millennium Park (Chicago, Ill.) Design Sources.

Notes: Available for research in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room of the Chicago Public Library.

Summary: The Millennium Park Inc. Archives contain information from the early planning stages of Chicago's "Lakefront Millennium Project" in 1998 through the completion and opening of the Park in July 2004. The overwhelming majority of the collection consists of presentation boards showing elevations, site plans, renderings and architectural sections of the various sites of the Park. The international garden competition which resulted in the construction of the Lurie Garden is particularly well represented, with presentation boards from all 11 entrants and with architectural models from the 3 finalists. Additional models from the winner of the garden competition show a more developed plan; there are two models of Crown Fountain, one showing the inside structure of the towers; there is a model of Cloud Gate; and there is a model of the Millennium Monument and Wrigley Square, currently on exhibit on the 8th floor of the Harold Washington Library Center.