Monday, September 16, 2013

Crown Fountain


Located at 50 South Michigan Avenue, Millennium Park, Chicago, the Crown Fountain is an unusual place to visit. If you already have plans to visit a few interesting places in a Chicago rental bus, don’t miss out on the opportunity to visit the Crown Fountain too. It is just within a short walking distance from “The Bean”. In fact, you can also kill two birds with a stone during this visit by going to the The Bean too, after you have seen the Crown Fountain.

If you plan to stop by the Crown Fountain first before you walk over to The Bean for your trip in the Chicago rented bus, please remember to let the bus driver know so that he can drop you at the nearest point to the Crown Fountain. Should this be your first trip, you may want to know that the Crown Fountain is actually two blocks of identical towers with LED lights showing a person’s face. The faces on the towers face each other and would seem like they are having a conversation. It is a rather unusual piece of art that some have actually called it a modern Gargoyle. It has also been said that a thousand locals were asked to sit for a minute and then at the end of the one minute, they were to purse their lips. Their images were then used on this LED lights display – by slowing it down to three minutes and when the image purse its lips, water then sprouts out from it and it would look as though they were spitting.
This is a great place to bring the family, especially the kids on a hot day for them to relax and cool down. Be sure to bring a change of clothes if you intend to bring the kids here to enjoy watching the display “spitting” water of out its mouth and it goes right into a shallow pool where you find many visitors keeping themselves cool in it on a hot day. Kids can’t help but to play with the water that comes out of the display, hence getting wet is quite inevitable. On hot sunny days, this is a favorite spot for the locals as well as visitors from near and afar. You can’t miss finding this place and if you came in a Chicago charter bus, you can be sure that the bus driver would know the place very well.

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