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Panoramic View Northeast from Santa Fe building, 2004

 

 

 

Panoramic View Northeast from Santa Fe building, 2004

The city's largest development of the lakefront for public use was the construction of the 24.5 acre Millennium Park created east of Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Monroe Streets, the area originally designated by the canal commissioners in 1836 as public ground. The park opened to the public July 2004.