Navy Pier’s Ferris wheel, an icon of the Chicago lakefront, will be dismantled this fall and replaced by a taller ride featuring temperature-controlled gondolas that will be ready in time for ...

Chicago's Navy Pier will open its new, taller Ferris wheel on May 27. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said Wednesday the opening will kick off Navy Pier's centennial celebration. The new 196-foot ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Chicago is just weeks away from the grand opening of Navy Pier's new and improved Ferris wheel and now it has a new name. "I'm pleased to announce today, Chicago's new wheel has a ...

CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago's Navy Pier will open its new, taller Ferris wheel on May 27. Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office said Wednesday the opening will kick off Navy Pier's centennial celebration.

Every time I arrive in Chicago and see a giant Ferris wheel in the distance at Pier Park, I know I’m not far from Navy Pier. The current wheel was installed in 2016 and is about 68 feet shorter ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Navy Pier has closed for two days to begin the first stage of construction on a new Ferris wheel. Last fall, the iconic Ferris wheel at Navy Pier was dismantled, to make way for an ...

The Ferris wheel’s opening date comes on the heels of the announcement of a new performance venue at Navy Pier called The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new ...

The 150-foot tall Ferris wheel from Chicago's Navy Pier is coming to the tourist destination of Branson. Navy Pier officials said last summer that it planned to debut a bigger, 196-foot Ferris ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Navy Pier is closed Tuesday and Wednesday for the construction of Chicago's new Ferris wheel. Crews worked in bitter cold Tuesday, putting up three of the six columns that will ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Navy Pier will be getting a new Ferris wheel in 2016. The new 196-foot wheel will fit into the space that will be vacated by the existing wheel that was installed in 1995.

The parts for the Ferris wheel came from the Netherlands, Germany and France, Murphy said. They traveled by boat to the East Coast, then train to Chicago and finally by truck to Navy Pier.