More than three dozen Chicago architects, planners and landscape architects present their visions of the city and the region in the 21st century and beyond in the free exhibition entitled Big. Bold. Visionary: Chicago Considers the Next Century from Sep 4 to Oct 4. Part of the Burnham Plan Centennial commemorating Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, the free exhibition features designs and proposals – including renderings, models and digital animation – for the lakefront, transportation, towers, public spaces, and rivers and trails in the next 100 years. Inspired by Burnham’s legacy of dreaming big and planning boldly, the designers have envisioned Chicago five generations in the future with submissions that range from a high-speed rail system that extends to the airport and a Municipal Pier at Northerly Island to a comprehensive water transit service and several ecologically-driven skyscrapers.
Visitors will be able to “Invent the Future” for free with a kiosk in the gallery that lets them choose land-use and transportation alternatives for accommodating the region’s 2.8 million new residents expected over the next three decades. The kiosk is part of GO TO 2040, the regional comprehensive plan in development by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.
Dates:
Sep 4, 2009 – Oct 4, 2009 
Hours:
Monday – Thursday, 8am – 7pm; Friday, 8am – 6 pm; Saturday, 9am – 6pm; Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Location:
Chicago Tourism Center
72 E. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Free Admission
Website: For additional information please visit, http://www.chicagoculturalcenter.org/
