Chicago Art Heist: Millennium Park Puzzle Adventure
Description
You just stole Edward Hopper's Nighthawks from the Art Institute of Chicago. Now you need to disappear into the city before anyone notices. This self-guided escape game turns Millennium Park into a thrilling art heist where every landmark hides your next move. Solve 14 puzzles at Chicago's most iconic public art. Decode clues at Cloud Gate, crack a cipher at Crown Fountain, lose your tail on the BP Bridge, and face a moral reckoning at Buckingham Fountain. Download the Questo app, activate with your booking code, and start at the Art Institute on Michigan Ave. No guide needed, just your phone, clues and a map in the app. Discover why Calder's Flying Dragon was his final sculpture, how Frank Gehry convinced the mayor with squiggles on paper, and the story of a boy sculptor pulled from an Illinois coal mine. About 95 minutes, 14 stops, 3.4 km through Millennium Park and Grant Park. Available all day. Perfect for art lovers, couples, and first-time visitors to Chicago.
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The Art Institute of Chicago was founded as both a museum and school for the fine arts in 1879, a critical era in the history of Chicago as civic energies were devoted to rebuilding the metropolis that had been destroyed by the Great Fire of 1871. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
It is the work of celebrated American artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976). ... The artist coated the stainless steel Flying Dragon in his signature red-orange color, which he also used for his giant Flamingo in Chicago's Federal Court Plaza. Calder's work spanned about fifty years. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area. Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and executed by Krueck and Sexton Architects, it opened in July 2004. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Image result for Cloud Gate Chicago history Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor's first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect Chicago's famous skyline and the clouds above. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The Wrigley Square contains the Millennium Monument, a nearly full-sized replica of the semicircle of paired Roman Doric-style columns (called a peristyle) that originally sat in this area of Grant Park, near Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street, between 1917 and 1953. The square also contains a large lawn and a public fountain. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The watery Lurie Garden site was accordingly filled (mostly with the rubble of the old city burned in the Great Fire), framed, and decked to its current elevation on the rooftop of a parking garage – awaiting the Garden that would tell the layered story buried beneath it. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The Chicago Stock Exchange Arch is one of the few surviving fragments from the Chicago Stock Exchange building designed in 1893, installed outside the Art Institute of Chicago, in the U.S. state of Illinois. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago Landmark in the center of Grant Park, and between Queen's Landing and Congress Parkway. Dedicated in 1927, it is one of the largest fountains in the world. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The sculpture depicts a contemplative Lincoln seated in a chair, and gazing down into the distance. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The sculpture was moved to Grant Park and rededicated in October 2006 in the Sir Georg Solti Garden, near Symphony Center, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Completed in 1913, Taft's Fountain of the Great Lakes was the first commission of Benjamin F. Ferguson Fund, which had been established several years earlier to foster the placement of statuary and monuments along the boulevards and in other public places in Chicago. Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The institution was founded in 2003, and its specialist collections include material relating to Winston Churchill and war-related sheet music.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) was founded in 1866 by a group of 35 artists. Then called the Chicago Academy of Design, its early success resulted in construction of a building to house the school, which opened its doors on November 22, 1870.
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- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(10)
Prepare to walk a lot, so wear comfortable shoes! The instructions were clear, and the highlights were interesting if you want to learn about some of the city's iconic landmarks.
Thank you so much for your review! We're glad you enjoyed exploring downtown Chicago with us. Great tip about the comfy shoes—there’s definitely a lot of ground (and clues) to cover! We’re happy to hear the instructions were clear and that the landmarks caught your interest. Hope to see you on another quest soon!
Great to see the skyline on the bean and take pics on every angle is awesome. Little crowded when we went at 12:30pm. Maybe earlier will be less people?
Thanks for sharing your experience! We're thrilled you enjoyed the views and had a great time taking photos. The Bean does get quite popular around midday, so visiting earlier might give you a bit more space to enjoy the skyline. Hope you capture even more fantastic shots next time!
At first the quest started out good until we ran into construction areas where things were being blocked. We had to use a clue/hint reveal answer which started taking the fun out of the game. We decided to continue anyways and had a problem getting into range of the water fountain. Had to use an expand radius. There were 4 of us in the group and like to get everything correct without using "points", this made the game more difficult when one person couldn't get game reconnected since she was not able to go back to last location and not be able to reach the fountain again to restart game because she was not in radius and we weren't allowed to climb into the fountain area. So we all just left the game from there.
We're sorry to hear about the challenges you encountered during your quest. We apologize for the inconvenience caused by construction areas and technical difficulties with connectivity and range issues, which affected your experience. Your feedback about the impact of these issues on gameplay is valuable to us, and we will review this with our team to ensure improvements are made. If you would like to discuss this further or have any additional feedback to share, please email us at care@questoapp.com. We appreciate your understanding and hope to make your future experiences with us more enjoyable.
Clues were good. used hint once. Took 130 minutes including water breaks. Wear comfy shoes and bring water. Enjoyed seeing areas of the parks and getting the history of artists and pieces.
Hello! We appreciate sharing your experience with us. We are happy that you have enjoyed Eastside Chicago: "The Art Heist" Exploration Game. See on your next Questo game!
There were several interesting things to see, but we missed others. The instructions for how to get from one site to another were miserable. The "challenge" was full of silly questions - not worth the trouble of trying to figure them out.
Thank you for taking time to give us your feedback. We are sorry that you had a negative experience. Our goal is the total satisfaction of our customers and to provide positive experience. We hope to see you giving a try playing one of our games in the future.
Really good app that is a unique way to learn about the city. We live in Chicago but wanted something outside for kids (8 and 11 yo) over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Although reluctant at first, I let the kids run the quest - short of helping on a few of the riddles/clues they were able to complete in 90 mins - really enjoyed the quest. Only feedback is a couple the questions/instructions were not very clear and we had to get hints to sort out meaning. All in all really good and will look for quests in Chicago and other cities we visit.
Great to see that you enjoyed exploring Chicago with Questo. Thank you for sharing your review. Hope to see you explore more games with us.
Super easy and a great way to see Chicago with friends. I would definitely do it again if given the chance.
So happy to see you enjoyed exploring Chicago with us. We are available in more than 100 cities worldwide, and in Chicago we are working on creating even more city exploration games soon, so there's plenty to explore with us. Hope to see you again soon.
Directions to destination were tough to follow. Destinations and questions were good. Overall experience was average.
Thank you for playing with us, and for sharing your feedback. I forwarded your comment to our content team already, and they will revise the game. Hope to see you soon exploring a new city with Questo.
So much fun! Easy to follow directions and yet someone within email reach if help is needed. Not only is the game fun and creative it led us to places / landmarks we would not have experienced and learned things we otherwise would not have learned. We will try to do this in every city we visit! Highly recommend.
Amazing review, Bitsie. Thank you for exploring with us, and for sharing your experience. We'd love to see explore with Questo wherever you go.
The game is great as far as history of Chicago. Being from out of state and not know ANYTHING about the City made it more difficult than fun.
Hello! Thanks for leaving your feedback. I'm sorry to hear you found the game difficult, our priority at Questo is to offer you FUN and SAFE city games. I'd definitely like to know more about your experience, you can reach out to me anytime at dimitri@questoapp.com. Thank you for playing Questo!
