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Article: Rebuilt Navy Pier is a crowd-pleaser
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 21, 1996
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Close your eyes and try to shake that 148-foot Ferris wheel from
your mind.
Remember the old Navy Pier? Dreary bricks and asphalt, broken
glass, the occasional scurrying rat.
And Navy Pier now?
A little more than a year after the opening of the renovated
Navy Pier, initial worries about whether the grand opening hoopla was
a fluke have dissipated like a morning mist over Lake Michigan.
Not bad for a place that had been abandoned by the military, a
university and the U.S. shipping industry.
"People really seem to love Navy Pier," said James Reilly, chief
executive officer for the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority,
which owns and manages the pier. "It's become, in a short time, ...