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Article: CHICAGO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM MOVING TO GRANT PARK
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 27, 2006
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The Office of the Mayor of Chicago issued the following news release:
Mayor Richard M. Daley announced today that Chicago Children's Museum will move from Navy Pier to a new building to be constructed on the northeast corner of Monroe Street and Columbus Drive in Grant Park.
The Chicago Park District will provide the site, which is at the south end of Daley Bicentennial Plaza, and Allstate Insurance will donate $15 million toward the construction costs, the Mayor announced.
"This is a tremendous location for the new museum - within walking distance of Millennium Park, the Cultural Center, Symphony Center, the Art Institute, Field Museum of Natural History, Adler Planetarium and Shedd ...