As a prelude to next year's centennial celebrations, why not consider ambition as such—the glory (and sometimes folly) occasioned by the human pursuit of the grand gesture, the great scheme, the Big Idea, the world-transformative moment, that generative, human predilection for thinking at scale. So here we have the 2008 Festival, Thinking Big. Such a theme evolves quite naturally out of last year’s Festival focus on The Climate of Concern. Several of the programs this year will limn ways in which the concerns evinced by global warming and environmental degradation call out for Big Thinking and, indeed, Big Doing.

Be sure to check out our Exhibitions, where you can hear the sounds of trains moving through Millennium Park and see blueprints for a future Chicago.

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