Comparing Chicago's "Bean" to Shreveport's 8-story mural, Once in a Millennium Moon

"Once in a Millenium Moon"
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Chicago's Millennium Park is part of the downtown Central Business District (CBD) known as the Chicago Loop. In Millennium Park notable sights are the Bean (aka the Cloud Gate) and the Crown Fountain.

Is there a part of Shreveport that compares in any way?
The Millennium Moon mural on the AT&T building, downtown, compares well. The 8-story mural is the country's largest.

Chicago is part of the Rust Belt. In the 1970's the US began to lose its heavy manufacturing facilities to foreign competition. The former industrial corridor around the Great Lakes is home to many rusting former factories.

Shreveport is part of the Bible Belt.
Bible Belt is an informal term for an area of the United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a dominant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is extremely high, says Wikipedia.

Chicago has some 10 million in the metropolitan area. Shreveport has far less than half a million.

Chicago's top schools? Univ of Chicago and Northwestern University (Not to confused with Northwestern State, Natchitoches).
Foods? Chicago hot dog, the Polish sandwich, the Chicago deep-dish pizza.