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Cloud Gate

Anish Kapoor's beloved silver sculpture in Millennium Park is known informally as 'the Bean.' It reflects both the sky and the skyline, and everyone clamors around to take a picture and to touch the smoothness of its highly polished stainless-steel exterior.

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