Stop on this walk
Mars
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Monument
📍 Stand on the grass on the south side of the pedestal, facing north. The rider, the skyline and Willis Tower stack up in one frame from there.
At true scale: 0.50 in (1.3 cm) across
About this place
Half an inch across and 1,411 feet out — a quarter mile from the sundial, and the end of the easy part. Everything from here is a different kind of walk.
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This is where the walk changes. The asteroid belt is the better part of a mile with nothing in it — head north on the Lakefront Trail into Grant Park and aim for the big fountain, which you will see long before you reach it. Worth walking rather than riding: the emptiness is the point of this leg.
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