Wrigley Square is a northwest section of Millennium Park in Chicago. It contains a nearly full-sized replica of the semicircle of paired Greek Doric-style columns (called a peristyle), that originally graced this area of Grant Park, near Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street between 1917 and 1953. Millennium Park is a prominent new civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois and an important landmark of the citys lakefront. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... In Roman architecture a peristyle is a columned porch or open colonnade in a building that surrounds a court that may contain an internal garden. ... Grant Park is a large park in Chicago, Illinois. ... 1917 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

A gift from the William Wrigley Jr. Company, the peristyle rises to a height of nearly 40 feet (12 m), restoring a classical elegance to Grant Park. The Wm. ...

Although the original peristyle was designed by renowned Chicago planner Edward H. Bennett, this current incarnation was designed by Michael Patrick Sullivan of OWP/P Architects.

The pedestal of the peristyle has inscribed on it the names of the financial donors that helped pay for Millennium Park. For the WWII naval operation, see Operation Pedestal Pedestal (from French piedestal, Italian piedestallo, foot of a stall) is a term generally applied to a support, square, octagonal or circular on plan, provided to carry a statue or a vase. ...

It is not to be confused with Wrigley Field, the baseball stadium. Wrigley Field is a sports stadium in Chicago, Illinois which was built in 1914 for the Chicago Federal League baseball team, the Chicago Whales and which became the home of the Chicago Cubs in 1916. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ...