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==Additions== [[File:BP Bridge entry.jpg|thumb|140px|left|[[Millennium Park]] and [[Maggie Daley Park]] comprise the northern end of Grant Park]] ===Children's Museum=== The [[Chicago Children's Museum]] announced plans in 2006 for a $100 million structure to replace its facilities at [[Navy Pier]]. The museum hoped to construct an underground building on the site of Daley Bicentennial Plaza, a plan that Mayor [[Richard M. Daley]] and council members approved in 2008. Some council members and area residents opposed the project and vowed to fight the proposal.<ref name="move">{{cite news |title='The Bean' gets new neighbors |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-04-08/entertainment/0904070414_1_pavilions-claudia-cassidy-theater-chicago-cultural-center |first=Blair |last=Kamin |date=April 8, 2009 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=June 15, 2011 |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813025141/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-04-08/entertainment/0904070414_1_pavilions-claudia-cassidy-theater-chicago-cultural-center |url-status=dead }}</ref> After fundraising lagged, in January 2012, the Children's Museum announced that it no longer would seek a Grant Park location.<ref name="dead">{{cite news |first=Blair |last=Kamin |title=With Children's Museum plan for Grant Park officially dead, a promising new plan emerges |url=http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2012/01/with-childrens-museum-plan-for-grant-park-officially-dead-a-promising-new-plan-emerges-1.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=January 27, 2012 |access-date=January 30, 2012 |archive-date=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130165422/http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2012/01/with-childrens-museum-plan-for-grant-park-officially-dead-a-promising-new-plan-emerges-1.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[File:Chicago Downtown Panorama.jpg|950px|thumb|center|'''Grant Park''', Monroe Harbor, and Chicago skyline 2004 from [[Museum Campus]]]]
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