Lurie Garden in Millennium Park is an urban oasis emerging from a harmonious blend of symbolism, landscape design and ecological sensitivity.
An urban model of responsible horticulture, Lurie Garden provides a healthy habitat for a wide variety of plants and wildlife. Lurie Garden is a leader in cutting-edge design, responsible gardening practices and dynamic public programming in an urban environment.
The garden offers a four-season experience blending Chicago?s past, present and future with bold design, dramatic form and intimate spaces. Its design pays homage to Chicago?s transformation from flat marshland to innovative green city, or ?Urbs in Horto? (City in a Garden).
Visitors find respite and inspiration in four seasons. In early spring, sun-hungry bulbs and perennials stretch through soil and begin anew. Summer and fall teem with the flutter of butterflies and birds. Winter?s seed heads and ornamental grasses capture snow and ice, creating graceful art forms. Lurie Garden is living art ? a palette of texture and color blending Chicago?s unique culture, ecology, history and people.
The garden plays host to year-round events which can be found listed on their website.
Highlights of the garden include the dramatically lit, 15-foot-high ?shoulder? hedge. This physical representation of Carl Sandburg?s famous description of the ?City of Big Shoulders? encloses the garden on two sides and protects the delicate perennial garden. A graceful hardwood footbridge over shallow water divides the garden diagonally between ?light? and ?dark? plates.
Lurie Garden is made possible by a $10 million endowment gift made by the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Foundation and generous support of garden by private citizens, garden clubs, industry supporters, among many others.
The Lurie Garden
Millennium Park
201 E. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60603
312.742.1168
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