Millennium Park is a prominent civic center in downtown Chicago. The park covers an area of 24.5 acres of northwestern larger Grant Park. The park is a great center for top-ranking art, music, landscape design and architecture design. You can experience everything you wish, from ice skating and public art to al fresco dining and free classical music presentations. With stunning park sceneries and gorgeous attractions, Millennium Park can be your must-stop spot for Chicago vacation.

As the park is located in downtown Chicago, convenient public transportation is available for visitors. Various CAT buses and subway trains can take you directly to the park. Plus the Metra commute rail system has many bus routes connected to Millennium Park. Of course, you can choose to drive to Millennium Park. It can be reached easily through many nearby highways.

Public Transportation and Directions to Millennium Park

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If you're traveling to the park by car, you may need to check out parking options offered in and around Millennium Park. Take it easy! The park offers visitors convenient and security-patrolled 24-hour parking option. Comprised of four parking garages, Millennium Garages serving Millennium Park and Grant Park is considered to be the largest downtown underground parking system throughout the US. Millennium Park Garage is one of four parking facilities and is also the newest one.

Where to find Millennium Park Garage? The garage is located in the center of Millennium Park that is directly under the Millennium Park. The address is 5 S Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60601. The contact number is 312-616-0600. The park is connected to the Harris Theater to ease your journey. Other famous landmarks near the Millennium Park Garage include Blue Cross Blue Shield Building and the AON Building.

Covering an area of 1 million square feet, Millennium Park Garage has a total of 2,126 parking spaces, offering ample parking lots for tourists, even on holidays and festivals. Remember to enter the Millennium Park Garage via the automobile entrance that is located on South Columbus Drive between Randolph Street and Monroe Street.

What about the parking rates at the garage? First 3-hour parking at Millennium Park Garage will have an expenditure of $19. Parking from 3 to 8 hours will lead in a parking rate of $21. Parking from 8 to 12 hours will be charged $23. A parking fee of $24 is enough for any longer parking hours up to 24 hours in a day. You can also choose monthly parking rate - $240. Notice that this is non-reserved parking rate. Remember there's special event parking rate for customers - $25.

If you want to save money for your parking rates at Millennium Park Garage, you need to be an early bird. If you park in between 5 AM and 10 AM and exit before 7 PM from Monday to Friday, a total of $14 is enough. So get up early and make the best use of the hours to navigate the park.

Are you monthly parkers? If so, why not join Club Millennium? Then you can receive a Club Millennium Window Cling. Put the small cling on your car's rear window or windshield to be recognizable for weekly prize give-away. You may get gift certificates to Park Grill or tickets to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra surprisingly.

Club Millennium for Millennium Garages

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Are you looking for driving directions to Millennium Park Garage? When planning your visit to the Millennium Park and the larger Grant Park, you need to be clear about the driving directions to your nearest parking garage. Follow the directions below to Millennium Park Garage.

From the South via I-55 and Lake Shore Drive - You can take the I-55 E for Chicago and Lake Michigan. Then you need to exit at the Lake Shore Drive North Exit. Drive along Lake Shore Drive North until you come to the Monroe Street Exit. Turn left onto Monroe Street. Proceed on the street and turn right onto Columbus Drive. You can see the entrances on your both sides in the middle of Columbus Drive.

From the North via I-94 - When traveling from this direction, you can take the East Ohio Street Exit. Keep on driving towards West Ohio Street. Then you need to turn right on North Fairbanks. When North Fairbanks Court meets with North Columbus Drive, you can drive southbound on North Columbus Drive. The garage entrance will be on your right.

From the North via Lake Shore Drive - If you're driving on Lake Shore Drive, take Lake Shore Drive South Exit onto Monroe Street. Turn right when driving along Monroe Street to Columbus Drive. Continue to turn right on Columbus Drive. You can enter via the garage entrances either on your right or on your left in the middle of Columbus Drive.

Three other garages also serve Millennium Park visitors. You can choose among Grant Park North Garage, East Monroe Street Garage, and Grand Park South Garage. For more parking info, you can browse through several websites listed for you.

Millennium Park North Garage

http://www.millenniumgarages.com/garages/grant-park-north-garage.aspx

Grand Park South Garage

http://www.millenniumgarages.com/garages/grant-park-south-garage.aspx

East Monroe Street Garage

http://www.millenniumgarages.com/garages/east-monroe-street-garage.aspx