While access to ‘The Bean’ is limited, our city has other public art worth seeing

Among the city’s wealth of public art: A 1933 Marquette Park neighborhood monument honoring two Lithuanian pilots who were killed attempting to fly from New York to Lithuania. (Sun-Times file)

Getting close to Millennium Park’s famed Cloud Gate will be tough until next spring, thanks to repair work that began this week on Grainger Plaza that surrounds the sculpture.

But there’s more to Chicago public art than the popular Anish Kapoor sculpture. Here’s a sample of what the city has to offer from now until the Bean is, well, done.