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View West on Congress Parkway from Columbus Drive, 2004

View West on Congress Parkway from Columbus Drive, 2004
The vantage here is from west of the Buckingham Fountain, which is located where Congress Street terminates at the lakefront. Congress Parkway is a wide and handsome divided boulevard within the park. It narrows west of Michigan Avenue, where it passes between the Congress Hotel and the Auditorium, before widening again as it leads into the Eisenhower Expressway.