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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announces Cloud Gate on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999.
Millennium Park, Chicago's 24-acre, 475 million-dollar urban park, is shown on July 8, 2004, just before it officially opens.
The stage of the band shell at Chicago's Millennium Park on Wednesday, July 7, 2004.
Pedestrians pass the music pavilion, topped with curved stainless steel panels resembling petals of flowers, Thursday, May 6, 2004, at Chicago's Millennium Park.
rittany Sesny, 8, of Lake Zurich, Ill., plays in Millennium Park's Crown Fountain, Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004, in Chicago.
Only part of the Cloud Gate, affectionately called The Bean by Chicagoans, is on display while crews polish the seams of the 110-ton sculpture.
On May 26, 2005, workers are seen buffing the seams of the stainless steel sculpture, which took longer than expected.
Andrew GiaCobbe marks off seams on the Cloud Gate, a stainless steel reflective sculpture in Millennium Park, Monday, March 7, 2005, in Chicago.
Steve Susnis works inside the Cloud Gate sculpture as work continues, Monday, March 7, 2005, in Chicago's Millennium Park.
Lights, scaffolding and workmen are reflected in the shiny exterior of the Cloud Gate as final work on the giant reflective sculpture continues Monday, March 7, 2005
The seams on Cloud Gate, the Bean, are shown in this photo from Jan 6, 2005. Crews will remove them in the final stages.
Austin Hilsmier, 3, from Chicago, looks back at his mom as he plays in Chicago's Crown Fountain at Millennium Park Thursday, June 23, 2005.
Work on Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" sculpture Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005, for the weekend reopening of popular piece of public art.
With the city skyline reflected behind them,Tim and Pam Kenny pose for pictures next to Amish Kapoor's sculpture "Cloud Gate" in October 2005.
Patches of snow slide down the Cloud Gate sculpture at the Millennium Park in Chicago, Friday, Dec. 1. 2006.
Sculptor Anish Kapoor is reflected on the ceiling of his sculpture "Cloud Gate" after the official dedication ceremony in Chicago's Millennium Park Monday, May 15, 2006.
Runners head down Columbus Drive in front of Millennium Park and the Chicago skyline just after the start of the Chicago Marathon in Chicago on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006.
Visitors gather inside Millennium Park before a public talk by The Dalai Lama on Sunday, May 6, 2007, in Chicago, Ill.
The Dalai Lama, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, made his first public appearance in Chicago in 2007 since 1999.
People skate under the Chicago skyline and thousands of lights in trees around the Millennium Park Ice Rink in Chicago on Dec. 5, 2008.
Oprah Winfrey and U.S. Olympic athletes on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, for the taping of the season premiere of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in Chicago's Millennium Park.
A boy cools off as he runs past the Millennium Park fountain in Chicago, Sunday, July 3, 2011.
Two people are silhouetted as they walk between two facing monoliths at the Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011.
Buildings behind Millennium Park promote Chicago's bid for the Olympic Games in 2016 in Chicago, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009.
Fog descends upon Millennium Park as pedestrians walk up the bridge from the park to the Chicago Art Institute, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, in Chicago.
Brandon Hurtavo cools off during hot weather at Millennium Park in Chicago, Wednesday, June 8, 2011.
Fog descends upon Millennium Park as a lone pedestrian walks in front of a monolith projection at Crown Fountain, Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, in Chicago.
Children enjoy the cool water on a hot summer day at Crown Fountain in Chicago's Millennium Park on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.
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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley announces Cloud Gate on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
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