Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park, Chicago

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After touring the Museum of Contemporary Art and then the Art Insititue of Chicago, with a lot of walking in between, it was wonderfully luxurious to flop on the cool grass and relieve our aching feet of their restraints. We lay back, barefoot, looking up at the magnificent web of stainless steel hovering over us. This structure has been classified of a work of art rather than a functional structure, although with the crisp acoustics it apparently provides, it is certainly very functional! As we relaxed, we observed children hopping around chasing bugs, parents taking intermittent breathers between chasing their children, but for once, I was not chasing anything! I was just happy to be.