The new Chicago sight guaranteed to scare the bejeezus out of your kids

By Liz Hoffman
Thursday, July 01, 2010

Someone's always watching...

That's what you can tell your kids, anyway -- a pleasant upside to a slightly unpleasant new addition to the Chicago public art scene.

Thirty feet high, bloodshot, and looking directly at you from seemingly every angle, "Eye," is a sculpture designed by Tony Tasset, an artist and professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

In addition to being a statement , the sculpture is nearly guaranteed to scare your kids into their best behavior. Or inspire a new generation of would-be opthamologists. So take a stroll down to Pritzger Park at Van Buren and State Streets in the South Loop, or click through the slideshow below.

Photos by Jason Geil