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Article: Navy Pier park named to honor Jane Addams
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- August 15, 1996
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The Chicago Park District board Wednesday honored Jane Addams,
Chicago's famous social reformer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, by
naming a park at Navy Pier for her.
The park at Ohio and Lake Michigan contains a 4-foot sculpture
by Louise Bourgeois that will be dedicated on Aug. 26. The black
granite work is the first public monument here to a non-mythical
woman.
The sculpture, titled "The Waltz of Hands," was commissioned by
the B.F. Ferguson Fund of the Art Institute of Chicago. The
sculpture consists of six carvings of hands atop massive bases.
"We are delighted. Jane Addams was a legend," said Constance
Nathanson, Addams' great-great-niece, who is a professor in the Johns
Hopkins ...