Chicago River Esplanade

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The Chicago River Esplanade is located along the north bank of the Chicago River between Michigan Avenue and the N Lakeshore Drive bridge ... It's officially named as "DuSable Founder's Trail" ... It includes a continuous river walkway with a series of landscaped cascading plazas ...

# In the image above, we see the steps down from the Michigan Avenue bridge to the Chicago River Esplanade ...
# In the image below we see the Columbus Drive bridge ...





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The Chicago River Esplanade includes a unique pedestrian river underpass at the Columbus Drive bridge. The image above shows the Columbus Drive bridge underpass ... and in the background is the N Lakeshore Drive bridge ...



These steps take one down from Colombus Drive bridge to the river walkway ... In the backdrop we see the N Lakeshore Drive bridge ...



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The stretch between Columbus Drive and Lakeshore Drive, on the north bank of Chicago River ...



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Here we see the N Lakeshore Drive bridge in the background ...

Public Art along the Chicago River Esplanade includes ...



Chicago Rising from the Lake - by Milton Horn ..
This bronze bas-relief is symbolic of the city of Chicago. The female figure represents Chicago emerging reborn from the bottom of Lake Michigan following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 ....

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The Centennial Plaza and Fountain ...
Every hour on the hour, from 10:00 to 14:00 and again from 17:00 to midnight, the esplanade's Centennial Fountain shoots a massive arc of water across the river for 10 minutes

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DuSable Park: This 3.5 acre park is located where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan ... It was dedicated as parkland in 1988 by the late Mayor Harold Washington. DuSable Park is named after Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable [1745 -1818] The first non-native settler and founding father of Chicago ...