#Chicago #architecture #unionstation #chicagohistory #historicchicago #historictrainstation #trainstations #grandtrainstation | Chicago Architecture Center

46K views · 77 reactions | Now in its FINAL FEW WEEKS at Union...

Union Station and the Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain, captured during our recent lighting congratulating Travis and Taylor on their engagement. Built in 2001, The Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain was a gift to the city in the name of the co-founder of H&R Block. The fountain features 232 computer-controlled sequencing jets and high-burst jets with accompanying lights, arranged in three concentric rings within an ellipse of black granite. A thin sheen of water on the flat granite creates a mirror to re