Break away from the tourist trap near the city’s water filtration plant.
Tag: Lake Shore Drive
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 5/25: Bike the Drive, Second City’s Neighborhood Tour, and Invisible Things
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, May 25
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Reader’s Agenda Sun 9/8: Chicago Half Marathon, the Renegade Craft Fair, and the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, September 8
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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart’s 1940 musical Pal Joey, now in revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway’s boundaries.
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Zoom in: Near North Side
This week we zoom in on the Near North Side and the Lakefront Path’s intersection at Illinois Avenue
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The nostalgia of architecture and the architecture of nostalgia
Robert Powers captures the “Cubic Zirconium Coast.”
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Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: The 800-Pound Gargoyle
The University of Chicago may not be the only force that shaped Hyde Park and Kenwood, but it’s the biggest.
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Timelapsing Chicago
Bruno Pieroni posted a lovely timelapse video of the city on YouTube. Checking it out, I noticed there are quite a few like it.
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Free Bike Tours
For bikers keen on reliving history, there are two options this Sunday:
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What happens when a village tries to get a story straight?
The public gathered online to try to figure out what actually happened to the cyclist killed on Lake Shore Drive.
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Visual hallucinations on LSD
How an optical illusion slows traffic on the Lake Shore Drive S-curve.
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Support your local muckraker
Three institutions that want to improve improve a pedestrian crossing on Lake Shore Drive, reporting on donors, and independent media.
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Cityscape: How the Lakefront Was Won
Every sizable city has a symphony and an art museum, but no one has lakefront parks like ours. How we got them is the subject of a classic book recently reissued.