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Monument with Standing Beast
Monument with Standing Beast is a sculpture by Jean Dubuffet in front of the Helmut Jahn designed James R. Thompson Center in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Its location is across the street from Chicago City Hall to the South and diagonal across the street from the Daley Center to the southeast. It is a white fiberglass work of art. The piece is a 10-ton or work. It was unveiled on November 28, 1984.
This is one of Dubuffet's three monumental sculpture commissions in
History Museum. The street then passes through the Near North Side, where in the River North neighborhood it passes the Rock N Roll McDonald's and the Rainforest Cafe. Then it continues over the Chicago River at the Clark Street Bridge and through the Loop, where it passes the Thompson Center and its Monument with Standing Beast. Clark Street continues between City Hall and the Daley Center and on to its termination at Cermak Road.