New East Side, Michigan Avenue, Millennium Park, Lakefront

New East Side

The New East Side is a mixed-use neighborhood east of Michigan Avenue that includes apartments, homes, businesses and retailers surrounded by magnificent parks that are framed by the Chicago River to the North, Buckingham Fountain to the South, Michigan Avenue to the West and Lake Michigan to the East.

With the opening of Millennium Park, the resurgence of the lakefront, and the addition of Lakeshore East, the new East Side is the most highly sought after real estate market in Chicago.

"This is the center of the universe right now. People are coming from all over the world to see Millennium Park."

— Chicago Tribune, Sunday, October 17, 2004.

Millennium Park excites the neighborhood with interactive art, walking paths and bridges, outdoor dining and a variety of free concerts. The park’s prominent features include the Jay Pritzker Pavillion, an outdoor wonderland where music meets the stars; Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate sculpture, a reflective "bean" that merges Chicago with open skies; and Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain, where children delight in cascading water that playfully flows from giant video walls. Millennium Park is the center of the universe right now. People come from all over the world to see this park.

Another attraction to the neighborhood is Navy Pier, the number one tourist and leisure destination in the Midwest. From rides to restaurants, exhibitions to entertainment, shopping to dining cruises and tour boats Navy Pier has it all - in a location unlike any other!

And just think, it’s all right in your back yard.