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Originally Posted by The North One
Chicago could have much much more beach shoreline, I don't understand why they settle for just that little corner. There must be no budget for it.
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uhhhhh, chicago has FAR more beach than just the one little corner of oak street beach.
the city of chicago's public swimming beaches, from north to south:
rogers beach
howard beach
loyola beach
albion beach
lane beach
hollywood beach
foster beach
montrose beach
north avenue beach
ohio street beach
12th street beach
31st street beach
41st street beach
57th street beach
63rd street beach
71st street beach
rainbow beach
calumet beach
that's ~5.5 linear miles of sand swimming beaches within city limits.
it's certainly not miami beach or anything, but that's still a respectable amount of sand swimming beaches for a great lakes city.
especially one on the "wrong" side of the lake where the water currents tend to erode away sand beaches. the west coast of michigan has it easy, the sand just piles up naturally over there.
and yes, there are plans to radically increase the beach and parkland area at oak street, and bury a stretch of LSD, but who knows if it'll ever happen because money.
source:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2017...-ohio/#slide-2
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Originally Posted by Boisebro
there are a lot of beaches going north between oak street beach and Evanston, but remarkably few on the south side. I've often wondered why that is.
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not true, the southside has 8 beaches to the northside's 10, and some of those northside beaches like lane, howard, and rogers are pretty tiny.
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Originally Posted by Boisebro
Milwaukee seems like it should have a lot more beaches, too, and take advantage of that long lake frontage.
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yeah, milwaukee only has 3 sand swimming beaches within city limits.
like chicago, milwuakee is also on the "wrong" side of the lake for sand beaches. the lake currents tend to erode sand away on this side of the lake instead of piling it up like over on the other side in michigan.