Chicago - Near North Side / Pioneer Court / Bust of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable - by Erik Blome

Jean-Baptiste Pointe SuSable

Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable

Sculptor: Erik Blome

Installed: 2009

Location: Pioneer Court

Chicago Riverwalk / Constellation (2020) - by Santiago Calatrava

 

Constellation - by Santiago Calatrava

Installed: 2020

Painted aluminum with steel reinforcement / 29' H x 29' W

Location: River Point Park / 444 W. Lake Street

Funded by the real estate investment, development and management firm Hines.

Chicago Riverwalk / Chicago Submarine Memorial

 

Chicago Sumarine Memorial

U.S. Navy Submarine Memorial

Dedicated: May 18, 2019

Location: Chicago Riverwalk / 435 East Riverwalk Drive

The Memorial commemorates 28 submarines built in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, that traveled through Chicago to the Pacific Ocean during the World War II

Not Forget Pearl Harbor - The design, construction and placement here, is a result of a challenge by a group of World War II submarine combat veterans to "Not Forget Pearl Harbor".

The Memorial is dedicated to all U.S. Navy Submariners, past, present and future, who defend our country.

Chicago Riverwalk / Allium - by Carolyn Ottmers

Allium - by Carolyn Ottmers



Allium - by Carolyn Ottmers

2004 / Installed 2015

Cast Aluminum / 10 feet tall

Location: Chicago Riverwalk

Allium is part of sculpture group called Equilibrium.  The sculptural group Equilibrium includes three sculptures - Parsnip, Allium, and Shepherd's Purse.  They are modelled on plants that grow in Chicago that actually clean up the soil. Although in nature they vary in height from a foot to 3 feet tall; the sculptures height range from 6 feet to 11 feet.  Alliums is 10 feet tall.

  

Chicago Riverwalk / Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame - by Various Artists

Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame

The Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame

Bust sculptures of eight outstanding American merchants

by Minna Harkavy, Milton Horn, Lewis Iselin, Henry Rox, Charles Umlauf

Installed: 1953

Description: Bronzes, four-times life-size (each)

Commissioned by The Merchandise Mart

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Location: The Merchandise Mart main entrance at the Chicago River

Temporary Exhibit / Chicago Riverwalk / You are on Potawatomi Land - by Andrea Carlson

Banner  "You Are on Potawatomi Land" - by Andrea Carlson

 

Multilingual Mural Banner 

Bodéwadmikik ėthë yéyék/ You are on Potawatomi Land

by Ojibwe artist Andrea Carlson

Installed: 2020

15' high x 266' long

The mural banner is made up of five oil paintings on canvas. These paintings were scanned with large format scanners and the digital files were blown up to accomodate the large format banners. The text were added digitally. The images were then printed on a mesh that allowed the air to flow through it.

Location: Chicago Riverwalk  - South Bank

Chicago Riverwalk / Du Sable Harbor / Core- loc Armoring Devices

Core-loc Armoring Devices

Du Sable Harbor

Core-loc Armoring Devices

These are Core-loc Armoring Devices

installed in the year 2000

by US Army Corps of Engineers

From the Chicago Park District Website..
In 2000, Westrec, the company that manages the Chicago Park District’s harbors and marinas, installed several Core-loc armoring devices in Grant Park just west of the DuSable Harbor as part of a larger landscape improvement project. Although the concrete objects resemble giant versions of children’s toy jacks, they are actually functional shore protection devices which have been patented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Hundreds of such Core-loc devices had previously been used to protect the wall along the edge of DuSable Harbor. The ones placed along the park’s grassy knoll no longer serve structural purpose for which they were designed, but they can be seen, instead, as interesting art objects..

Chicago - Near North Side / Nicholas J Melas Centennial Plaza and Fountain





Nicolas J Melas Centennial Fountain


Nicholas J Melas Centennial Plaza and Fountain

Built in 1989 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to Great Chicago.

Location: Chicago River Explanade
in the North Bank of Chicago River

Chicago Riverwalk / Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium

Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium

Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium

by the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1852

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago's

WASTEWATER SYSTEM

One of the finest example of how civil engineering ingenuity

shaped the development of society's quality of life in the 20th century ".. 

Designated: Sep 19, 2001

Chicago Riverwalk / Chicago Remembers Memorial - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Chicago Remembers /Vietnam Veterns Memorial

Chicago Remembers Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Memorial 

Chicago Remembers Memorial is dedicated to all evterans of the armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. It features the names of 2,936 Illinois veterans who died in the conflict.

Memorial was dedicated on Nov 11, 2005

and is a tribute to all veterans who served in the Vietnam War

Designed by: Ross Barney and Jankowski Architects

Location: Wacker Drive at Wabash,  Chicago, IL 60601

Defense, Regeneration, The Pioneers, and The Discoverers - by James Earle Fraser and Henry Hering

Defence - by Henry Hering / Southwest Tower 

Defense, Regeneration, The Pioneers, and The Discoverers

- by James Earle Fraser and Henry Hering

1928 / Carved limestone

Location: Michigan Avenue Bridge 

Chicago Riverwalk / Riverwalk Gateway - by Ellen Lanyon

Chicago Riverwalk Gateway

Riverwalk Gateway 

Artist: Ellen Lanyon 

Architect: The trellised, cast-concrete walkway,

 is designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

 Description: Ceramic mural tiles.

 Location: Under Lakeshore Drive, south bank of Chicago River.

Chicago Riverwalk / Riverwalk Gateway - II [North Wall] - by Ellen Lanyon

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Riverwalk Gateway - by Ellen Lanyon 

Architect: The trellised, cast-concrete walkway, is designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

 Description: Ceramic mural tiles. 

Location: Under Lakeshore Drive, south bank of Chicago River. 

Riverwalk Gateway - III [South Wall] - by Ellen Lanyon

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Riverwalk Gateway - by Artist: Ellen Lanyon 

Architect: The trellised, cast-concrete walkway, is designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Description: Ceramic mural tiles

Location: Under Lakeshore Drive, south bank of Chicago River

There are twelve panels on each side of the wall.

Chicago Riverwalk / Ruins - III

Ruins III  - by Nita Sunderland

Ruins - III  - by Nita Sunderland 

1981-2004

Description: Bronze and limestone 

Location: East Riverwalk, between Columbus and Lake Shore Dr.

A part of Art-in-Architecture Program 

Ruins III, part of the Ruins series, was inspired by artist Nita Sunderland’s travels in Italy and England. It reflects her ongoing interest in parallels between medieval and contemporary society. In this case, Sunderland suggests the isolation that exists within a greater community dynamic. Physical separation is suggested by the placement of the figures, while division imposed by societal roles is implied by the figural silhouettes of knights, a leper and a medieval woman.

Chicago Riverwalk / Chicago Rising from the Lake - by Milton Horn

Chicago Rising from the Lake - by Milton Horn

Chicago Rising from the Lake

Sculptor - Milton Horn

Installed: 1954

Description: Bronze, H 7 ft. x W 12 ft.

Location: Columbus Drive Bridge Columbus Dr. at the Chicago River Esplanade