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Originally Posted by edale
I've heard the beaches in Chicago are pretty gross, and there is often high levels of e coli in the water. When my sister was living in Chicago, she always told me to avoid the beaches (at least near downtown) because I'd get sick.
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i've been going to chicago beaches every summer for the past 43 years.
they're not pristine like some untouched stretch of coast in southern chile, but they are not gross either.
the e coli hysteria is mostly just that. i swam in that same exact water for decades before they even bothered to start testing for that shit, and it never made me sick.
hell, when i was a kid, on summer break i damn near lived at the beach, swimming in that water every single day.
your sister was
grossly misinformed.