With its bracing combination of supersize video screens, refined glass-block towers and an elegant reflecting pool, the Crown Fountain brings the art of the urban fountain into the 21st Century and, ...

Will the Crown Fountain of the future be the spitting image of the one we know today? Credit: Patrick Pyszka, Courtesy City of Chicago Whenever the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa is in Chicago, the first ...

On a hot summer day in downtown Chicago, expect lots of "splashing around" at the Crown Fountain, as 10-year-old Lexi Peponis pointed out. "It's cold," added 8-year-old Kate Jenny. The fountain's ...

Another pandemic-year disruption: Jaume Plensa, creator of Millennium Park’s Crown Fountain, was supposed to be in the city and in Michigan this fall, where he’s got a new gallery show and work being ...

Crown Fountain will light up Millennium Park this weekend, and extensive off-season upgrades promise to make these colorful columns of faces even more wonderful to look at. The fountain, which ...

Millennium Park turns 20 on Tuesday. But the 24.5-acre expanse became the king of Chicago city parks almost as soon as it opened in 2004 — four years late and with a price tag of $490 million, more ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A child was recently told to leave the Crown Fountain at Millennium Park, all because of a disability. As CBS 2's Steven Graves reported Thursday night, we found out it should never ...

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