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Tag: Great Lakes
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Downstate hate: A history of the bitter, nearly 200-year rivalry between Chicago and the rest of Illinois
The animosity between Illinois’s largest city and its smaller towns is almost as old as the state itself.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Chicago’s famous flatness is important (and not always true)
Pancake-flat topography made the city a center for engineering innovations.
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Swimming in the muck (of Chicago politics)
Suddenly it’s election season again—and swimming season too.
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Oktoberfest shootout: Metropolitan, Revolution, and Two Brothers
Some of the best Oktoberfest beers available in Chicago were brewed right here.
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Chicago moves to ban plastic shopping bags—if Rahm’s willing
As aldermen push their own environmental plans, will Mayor Emanuel really stand on the sideline?
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Not two peas in a pod: Deschutes Inversion IPA and Class of ’88 Porter
A collaboration with Great Lakes and a flagship beer from Deschutes.
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Mash Tun Oktoberfest and other food and drink events
Craft Spirits Week takes over Chicago’s food and drink event scene, with still more Oktoberfests, beer festivals, wine festivals, and dinners paired with spirits and ciders
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Lake Michigan politely returns our trash
I recently wrote about how much I love swimming in the lake, and how I sometimes see litter on the lake bottom when I’m offshore a couple hundred yards. That hasn’t been an issue this week. Winds, currents, and waves stirred up the water enough that it’s been so cloudy I could barely see my […]
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The depths of urban living
Several people were already in the lake when I got to Albion Beach the other morning—two kids playing in the shallows, an old guy wielding a metal detector as he waded over the first sandbar, and a few of my kind—distance swimmers paddling steadily through water turned gold by the sun a hundred yards offshore. […]
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Invasion of the Rusty Crayfish
If you’ve taken a walk along a Chicago beach recently, you may have noticed all the claws. They’ve washed up everywhere—evidence of the presence of rusty crayfish, an invasive species.
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A pastry market, a holiday entree demonstration, and plenty of beer tastings.
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Morning news roundup
The news you might’ve missed: while James Meeks floated another school funding proposal, former city clerk James Laski weighed in on the president’s reform credentials.
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Green schemes
Business groups around the Great Lakes region collaborate on a plan to spur a new green economy.