The Loop: River, Skylines & Civic Splendour
Chicago, United States
Downtown Chicago tells the story of a city transformed after the Great Chicago Fire into a laboratory for modern architecture and engineering. The walk highlights Millennium Park, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Cityfront Plaza, Marina City, the Carbide and Carbon Building, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Along the river and through public spaces, it shows Chicago’s civic vision of making art, architecture, and culture part of everyday life.
The stops
- 01 Millennium Park
Millennium Park is a major downtown public park known for Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, and other contemporary civic art and architecture.
- 02 Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, also known as Pritzker Pavilion or Pritzker Music Pavilion, is a bandshell in Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
- 03 Cityfront Plaza
Cityfront Plaza is a plaza in Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is along an elevated roadway linking North Michigan and Columbus, near NBC Tower and Pioneer Court.
- 04 Chicago Architecture Center
Chicago Architecture Center, Central, Chicago, IL, USA
- 05 Heald Square Monument
Heald Square Monument is a sculpture honoring George Rogers Clark, George Washington, and the frontier surveyor John Kinzie in downtown Chicago.
- 06 Marina City
Marina City, Central, Chicago, IL, USA
- 07 Carbide and Carbon Building
The Carbide and Carbon Building is a 1920s Art Deco skyscraper in Chicago, famous for its distinctive dark facade and gold-leaf top.
- 08 The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center, formerly the city’s central public library, is known for its ornate interior and one of the world’s largest Tiffany glass domes.
The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.
Walk The Loop: River, Skylines & Civic Splendour with a voice in your ear.
Download Odyssey Guide on iPhone to start this walk.
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