A 26-foot tall statue of Marilyn Monroe towering above tourists in the middle of Chicago was unveiled on Friday to much applause.
Desperate to keep her identity a secret until Friday, workers who put the statue in place on Thursday had to put a rather unsightly cloth bag over the poor girl's head, albeit it one in red, white and blue.
The statue, by artist Seward Johnson, replicates the actress's famous subway scene in 1955 film The Seven Year Itch and was unveiled on Chicago's Pioneer Court.
In the scene Monroe stands over a subway grate as a breeze from a train passing below blows her skirt over her panties.
It was shot in New York but as the Windy City, Chicago seems like the second best location for such an art work.While their wives and girlfriends were not there, the men from a wedding party took scores of photos from all different angles..
The stainless steel and aluminium sculpture, which weighs a whopping 34,000lbs, has raised more than a few eyebrows.
Not least because visitors to the plaza are at once confronted with Monroe's pert bottom in gleaming white panties and her perfect pins bedecked in white, open-toe kitten heels.
Watch the statue midway through construction:
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