Cancer Survivors Garden

After Richard A. Bloch, co-founder of H & R Block, Inc. survived what he had been told was "terminal" lung cancer, he established a foundation to help others fight and recover from cancer.  The foundation has given gifts to create Cancer Survivor's parks and gardens throughout the nation.  When the foundation offered such a gift to the Chicago Park District in the 1990s, designers Miriam Gusevitch, Julie Gross, and Dan Purciarello developed a scheme specifically for its site on the northeast side of Grant Park.  They created a tranquil formal garden with a commanding view of the Field Museum of Natual History to the south.

Benches line the walkways for quite reflection.  The garden incluses two forty-foot tall granite columns that had been salvaged when Chicago's 1905 Federal Building was razed.  The elegant columns flank an open metal pavilion and are on axis with the classical columns of the Field Museum.

Two square planters flank the north entrance on Randolph Street.