It began on a spring day in 1999.

A man named Gary Comer was in a car, moving south on Michigan Avenue.

He was staring at the wall of buildings to the west and the work being done in the park to the east and this is what he thought: “I was looking at all these buildings, the construction work on the Millennium Park and I started thinking, none of this is going to be here in 1,000 years, at the next millennium all of this will be gone. Buildings are only built to last 100, 120 years. I thought we should have a record of the way the city looked.”

And so was born one of the most ambitious, audacious, remarkable, outlandish, captivating, important, playful, (choose your own adjective, there are many can apply) projects in the city’s history.

It would be called CITY 2000 and involved more t

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