CHICAGO (WGN) — In July 2004, Millennium Park opened and inspired Chicago while dazzling the world. Instantly hailed as a masterpiece, it is perhaps the city’s last truly transformative civic achievement — a public and cultural space of the highest artistic standards open and free to all, appealing to residents and tourists alike.
But more than two decades later, the city faces a question as big as the Bean: what’s Chicago’s next Millennium Park?
It’s a question World Business Chicago’s CEO Phil Clement has been mulling for a while, and he knew he wasn’t the only one: “Every city needs an imagination; it’s so important.”…