November 10, 2010, Wednesday - The Next Generation of Parks - The Making of Millennium Park at MacPhail

Time: 7:00pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 Second Street South

The creation of Chicago’s Millennium Park, which opened in 2004, was a complex and difficult undertaking. Through an unprecedented public/private partnership an extraordinary cultural venue was created by some of the best architects, landscape designers and artists in the world. Ed Uhlir (Executive Director, Millennium Park) will describe how the project design evolved over its six year gestation, how $220 million was raised from the private sector and how the park and its programming have had an enormous economic and social impact on Chicago.

Co-sponsored by: Trust for Public Land, the College of Design at University of Minnesota and the Walker Art Center.

Cost: Free. Reception to follow.