DOWNTOWN — It was a valiant effort, but The Bean remains unmoved.
Hundreds of Chicagoans showed up to Millennium Park Sunday to answer a call posted on an anonymous flyer asking for help pushing The Bean exactly seven inches to the left at the oddly specific time of 12:47 p.m.
The flyer began going viral on social media Saturday, leading to a sizable crowd that turned out in droves and worked as a group to move the Bean. The people, however, were simply no match against 110 tons of steel.
It’s the latest public stunt in a recent string of absurd viral gatherings that have included celebrity lookalike contests, performative male pageants and even a protest calling for the release of a man supposedly trapped inside of The Bean…