Millennium Park Mania

You too can hold your event at Millennium Park for a mere $800,000.

Toyota is having a promotional event in September over at Chicago's Millennium Park, effectively shutting down the park to tourists and visitors during that day. For that price tag, Toyota receives exclusive use of most of the park space in addition to promotional ad space in surrounding park areas.

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, who negotiated this deal, reports that if all goes well, the city of Chicago would probably be looking for other interested corporations to rent the park for a day. Most of the fee would go towards philanthropy goals of Millennium Park and to sponsor other public events that the park currently holds such as concerts and art galas. Even now, the new structures at the Park are named after corporations, such as Exelon, Tribune, and Wrigley to name a few.

Millennium Park cost approximately $150 billion to build and opened the summer of 2004.

In other news, Bath and Body Works have coupons for free rose water cream (from the C.O. Bigelow Collection) with a $10 purchase and also a free manicure kit with a $30 purchase. I must stop by.

I stopped by Marshalls the other day and picked up some brand name clothes for like $5 each. Fabulous. I am definitely excited although they are all winter clothes and it pretty much seems that spring is here to stay!