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Millennium Park

 Millennium Park

Discover an Urban Icon of Beauty and Culture

 

Millennium Park is an award-winning center for art, music, architecture and landscape design. The result of a unique partnership between the City of Chicago and the philanthropic community, the 24.5-acre Park features the work of world-renowned architects, planners, artists and designers.

 

 

Most Recent News

 

May 9, 2012: 34th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival Headline Acts Announced

 

May 8, 2012: 27th Chicago Gospel Music Festival Full Schedule Announced

 

May 7, 2012: “Made In Chicago: World Class Jazz” The Acclaimed Series Returns to Chicago’s Millennium Park July 19-August 30, 2012

 

May 2, 2012: Millennium Park's All-New Music Series "Loops and Variations" Mixes New Music with Electronica

 

April 24, 2012: Chicago Jazz Festival Announces Artist In Residence

 

April 18, 2012: Millennium Park Summer 2012

Concerts Showcase Classical, Jazz, Indie-Rock And More

 

April 10, 2012: Jump-Start Your Weekend with a Morning Workout, Saturdays in Chicago’s Millennium Park, June 9-Sept. 1

 

March 29, 2012: A Spectacular Summer of Free Concerts Come to Chicago’s Millennium Park

 

March 21, 2012: Columbia College Chicago’s Playwriting Program Presents “Staging Change” in Millennium Park

 

March 28, 2012: A Spectacular Summer of Free Concerts Comes to Chicago's Millennium Park

 

March 6, 2012: Actress and Singer McKinley Carter Steps Out at “Cabaret With A View” in Millennium Park

 

February 27, 2012: “Guerra: A Clown Play” Looks at War Through the Lens of a Clown

 

February 21, 2012: Attendance for Chicago’s “Luminous Field” Tops 65,000

 

February 16, 2012: Paul Oakley Stovall and Brad Simmons Take the Stage at “Cabaret With A View” in Millennium Park

 

January 26, 2012: Family Activities and Live Performances Brighten Winter Weekends at the Spectacular “Luminous Field” in Chicago’s Millennium Park

 

January 10, 2012: Color and Light Move Through Millennium Park With “Luminous Field” by Chicago Artists Luftwerk

 

November 8, 2011: Barbara Robertson Sings “Stages of My Life” Monday, December 19, 2011 at 7:30pm

 

November 7, 2011: Celebrate the Holidays with “Caroling at Cloud Gate”

 

October 7, 2011: “In The Works” Theater Lab Series at Millennium Park Returns for a Third Season

 

October 4, 2011: Celebrate the Holidays with “Caroling at Cloud Gate”

 

September 21, 2011: The McCormick Tribune Ice Rink In Millennium Park Opens For The Eleventh Season On Friday, November 18, 2011

 

September 14, 2011: Mali’s Legendary Blues Guitarist Boubacar Traoré to Replace Staff Benda Bilili in Concert in Millennium Park


August 29, 2011: 13th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago Returns to Millennium Park

 

August 22, 2011: Millennium Park’s Soul Train Afternoon Dance Party to Kick Off Chicago’s 40th Anniversary Soul Train Concert

August 18, 2011: Spiritual Source: Randy Weston, The Chicago Jazz Ensemble and the Arrangements of Melba Liston

August 17, 2011: 13th Annual World Music Festival: Chicago 2011 September 15-22

 

August 15, 2011: Chicago’s 40th Anniversary Soul Train Concert to Honor Don Cornelius in Millennium Park

 

August 9, 2011:  Kindred Spirits of the Horn: Corey Wilkes Celebrates Miles Davis and Roy Eldridge

 

August 1, 2011: The Cello Rock Sounds of "Rasputina" at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park

 

July 28, 2011: Crowning Chicago's Downtown Lakefront, 24.5-Acre Millennium Park Inaugurated in July 2004

 

July 26, 2011: Latin Inspiration: Howard Levy with Chévere de Chicago, Trio Globo and Chris Siebold

 

July 25, 2011: Experimental Pop Chanteuse "My Brightest Diamond" Comes to Millennium Park for One Night Only

 

July 18, 2011: Millennium Park's Dusk Variations Series Kicks off with The Turtle Island Quartet

 

July 12, 2011: Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz continues with African Journeys Featuring Ryan Cohan and Geof Bradfield

 

July 12, 2011: Otis Clay: The Gospel of Jazz and Soul in a Musical Salute to Mahalia Jackson and Sam Cooke

 

July 11, 2011:  Chicago Band “Funkadesi” to Replace Susheela Raman in Thursday's Music Without Borders Concert in Millennium Park

 

July 6, 2011: Made in Chicago Kicks off with a Tribute to Von Freeman


June 13, 2011: A New Sound of Samba Comes to Millennium Park as Brazil's Diogo Nogueira Takes the Stage

Jun 9, 2011:
Congolese Guitarist Diblo Dibala to Replace the Band “Ram” in a Music Without Borders Concert in Millennium Park

 

May 24, 2011: Replacement Band July 7 in Millennium Park: Rupa and the April Fishes

April 28, 2011:World Music Festival Chicago 2011 returns September 16 – 22

April 26, 2011:
Four More Bands Added to the Line-up for Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays in Millennium Park

 

April 4, 2011: Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz – Acclaimed Series Returns to Millennium Park July 28 – Sept 1, 2011

 

April 4, 2011: Dusk Variations – Classical and Pop Music Collide on Monday Nights in Millennium Park with Four Free Concerts August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2011

 

April 4, 2011: Music Without Borders – Seven International Concerts From Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South American Travel to Millennium Park June 9 – July 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Contact:
Jill Hurwitz
312.742.1149 
jill.hurwitz@explorechicago.org

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