A Preview
"You're looking at two 50-foot towers with giant faces on them. The faces are going to spit water at you. This is public art. Crown Fountain opened in 2004. It cost $17 million. The faces are real Chicagoans — 1,000 of them, filmed one by one, sitting in a barber chair at the School of the Art Institute. They smile. They stare."
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.
Hear the full story at Crown Fountain
This is just one of 13 stops on the The Postcard Tour tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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