Press Releases

• Aug 27, 2005: Cloud Gate in Millennium Park is now open!
• Aug. 18, 2005: Cloud Gate sculpture to be completely untented by Sunday, August 28
• Aug 18, 2005: "Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait by Terry Evans" extends through October 23
• Aug 16, 2005: World Music Festival: Mexican Night features Banda Manzanera, Lila Downs, Mariachi Perla de Mexico, and Celso Pina y su Ronda Bogota in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
• Aug 16, 2005: World Music Festival: Brazilian Night features Chicago debuts of Seu Jorge and super group Orquestra Imperial plus DJ Joe Bryl at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion
• Aug 11, 2005: Reminder: Millennium Park will be partially closed for a private event on Thursday, September 8
• Aug 11, 2005: Opera Star Denyce Graves, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, and Radio Legend Garrison Keillor perform in Millennium Park's Blockbuster Weekend (9/10-12)
• July 18, 2005: The Grant Park Music Festival season closes with WTTW's 50th Birthday Bash, Saturday, August 20 at 7:30pm
• July 16, 2005: Chicago's Millennium Park will turn one-year-old on Saturday
• July 7, 2005: Exciting young conductors Robert Moody, Carlos Miguel Prieto and Daniel Beckwith lead the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in July and August
• June 29, 2005: Six Marching Bands added to Millennium Park Lineup heralding the new series MADE IN CHICAGO: A JAZZ CELEBRATION
• June 29, 2005: Millennium Park becomes the nation's first cultural destination to offer free MP3 tours for download
• June 23, 2005: Get Fit With Free Workouts on the Great Lawn at Millennium Park
• June 23, 2005: "Surprise" Performances on the Chase Promenade
• June 14, 2005: Summer 2005 Millennium Park Updates
• June 13, 2005: James Paul leads his final concerts as Principal Guest Conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival
• June 10, 2005: Mayor Richard M. Daly officially opens Millennium Park's new Boeing Galleries
• June 2, 2005: Grant Park Music Festival continues in late June and early July
• May 27, 2005: Cloud Gate Sculpture in Millennium Park partially unveiled on Friday, May 27
• May 12, 2005: Grant Park Music Festival opens its first full season
• May 12, 2005: "Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait by Terry Evans"
• May 05, 2005: Millennium Park and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. to form Summer 2005 Partnership
• May 05, 2005: Millennium Park celebrates its first full summer by hosting more than 50 free concerts, exhibitions and events
• Apr 30, 2005: Visitors to Millennium Park are invited to make their first stop the new Millennium Park Welcome Center
• Apr 30, 2005: The Chicago Office of Tourism launches Millennium Park greeter service
• Apr 30, 2005: Chicago Shop at Millennium Park
• Apr 21, 2005: Millennium Park hosts a "Blockbuster Weekend" featuring free public performances by Lyric Opera of Chicago, members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Steppenwolf Theatre Company
• Apr 12, 2005: Millennium Park hosts a sizzling new series: Made in Chicago: A Jazz Celebration
• Apr 01, 2005: Chicago's new Millennium Park wins Travel & Leisure Design Award for "Best Public Space", and the American Public Works Association "Project of the Year" Award
• Mar 21, 2005: Colleen Schuetz named Head Horticulturist for the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park
• Mar 21, 2005: Millennium Park's Lurie Garden Celebration
• Mar 17, 2005: Mayor Daley accepts $5 Million grant from the Boeing Company to fund open-air galleries in Millennium Park
• Millennium Park Project Fact Sheet
• July 16, 2004: Crowning Chicago's Downtown Lakefront, 24.5-Acre Millennium Park Inaugurated in July 2004

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