Play Day

Millennium Park

Kid essentials

RestroomsYes
Wheelchair accessibleYes
Free to enterYes
Water playYes

About this place

Chicago's free downtown park anchored by the Cloud Gate sculpture -- "the Bean" -- with Crown Fountain's two towers spraying water over a shallow plaza for wading each summer.

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201 E Randolph St

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