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The Museum Campus now comprises the southeast of Grant Park Petrillo Music Shell hosts several music festivals Seasonal planting in Grant Park Beaux Arts garden on Michigan Avenue near 8th Street Spirit of Music Garden in Grant Park near Michigan Avenue Lincoln Monument Near Congress Parkway Bloch Cancer Survivors Garden in northeast Grant Park

Grant Park, with 319 acres (1.29 km2) between the downtown Chicago Loop and Lake Michigan, offers many different attractions in its large open space. The park is generally flat. It is also crossed by large boulevards and even a bed of sunken railroad tracks. While bridges are used to span the tracks, and also used to connect with Millennium Park, the rest of the park must be reached by pedestrians at traffic crossings, except for a spacious underpass connection to the Museum Campus. There are also several parking garages underneath the park, near Michigan Avenue.

When it was landscaped in the early 20th century in a formal beaux arts style, tall American Elms were planted in allées and rectangular patterns. While hundreds of these trees still exist, reaching 60 feet tall, they were devastated in the late 1970s by Dutch Elm Disease. Hybrid elms have since been used to replace lost trees.

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