An organization claims there is a full-grown man living inside “the Bean.”
He utters no sound, but you can see him — when the sun hits “the Bean’s” silver skin in just the right way, they say.
Ald. Brendan Reilly, in whose 42nd Ward the shiny blob exists, says it’s not so.
“I am happy to confirm that a man has not been trapped inside ‘Cloud Gate’ (a.k.a ‘the Bean’) for the past 21 years. In fact, the man was freed years ago. Further, we can neither confirm nor deny that Soldier Field is actually a flying saucer secretly relocated from Area 51 back in 2003,” Reilly’s office said in a statement this week.
And Reilly, while saying he appreciates the “lighthearted parody” from the “Man in Bean Coalition,” which has some 29,000 followers on its Instagram page , said he would like the “onlin