On Sunday, hundreds of people gathered in downtown Chicago to try to move the popular “Bean.” Crowds assembled in Millennium Park in the afternoon for an event that began as a campaign spreading on social media.
Flyers then began appearing around downtown. The plan was simple: move Chicago’s famous “Bean,” officially named “Cloud Gate,” seven inches to the left. Why? An internet legend has long claimed that a man is trapped inside the sculpture, one of Chicago’s best-known attractions. The event’s organizers said that moving the sculpture would let him go free. As might have been expected, the large crowd failed to budge the 110-ton stainless steel sculpture.
The origin of the internet rumors about the “man in the Bean” is unclear, but the satirical claim was enough to spark protests in the Loop, Chicago’s downtown district, in front of the sculpture in 2025, and even to draw an official statement from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Earlier this year, a video titled “Man in the Bean” appeared on YouTube.
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Source: Polski.FM
