Millennium Park's Attractions By Vivienne Mackie [caption id="attachment_9919" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Wrigley Square and Millennium Park Monument"][/caption] Every visitor to Chicago has Millennium Park on their “To-Do” list, and quite rightly so. Whenever we’re in the city we always make a bee-line for it, and no matter what the weather is like there will be many people there. It is many things to many people: a lovely park, a venue for outdoor sculpture, a place for kids to run around, a music venue, a new kind of town hall square for both Chicagoans and visitors, and even the world’s biggest green roof, as it’s ...
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Berlin is a phoenix rising from the ashes and reinventing itself. Decades of war and oppression are being replaced by trendy boutiques, sidewalk cafes, retail shopping areas, and renovated historical monuments and museums. Since World War II much of this Germany capital was in ruins following intensive bombing. Then, for more than 28 years, it was a divided city with a barbed wire fence being erected under cover of night and eventually turning into a permanent concrete barrier and an adjoining death zone. As 136 people found out, crossing it usually meant death. When the wall fell, the rush of freedom ...
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Millennium Park’s Attractions
By Vivienne Mackie
Every visitor to Chicago has Millennium Park on their “To-Do” list, and quite rightly so. Whenever we’re in the city we always make a bee-line for it, and no matter what …
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