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Stop 3 of 12 on Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams
Grant Park — The Fight to Keep It Empty
Museum Campus, Chicago
A Preview
"Turn back toward the skyline and notice what's missing. There's a solid wall of towers along Michigan Avenue, and then, between that wall and the water, a long green nothing. Grant Park is the most valuable empty real estate in the Midwest. It's empty because one furious catalog salesman sued the city of Chicago four times and won every single one."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
Tour Stops
Follow the full Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams route.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Buckingham Fountain
- 3 Grant Park — The Fight to Keep It Empty
- 4 The Field Museum — A Greek Temple on Landfill
- 5 Sue and the Lions of Tsavo
- 6 Shedd Aquarium — They Shipped the Ocean
- 7 Solidarity Drive
- 8 Adler Planetarium — The First Sky in the Hemisphere
- 9 Northerly Island — The Airport That Was Erased Overnight
- 10 The Balbo Monument
- 11 Soldier Field
- 12 The Reveal
Hear the full story at Grant Park — The Fight to Keep It Empty
This is just one of 12 stops on the Museum Campus: Landfill of Dreams tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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