- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 3/3: Chicago Polar Plunge, Bitchin' Purge, and Paul Lewis
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, March 3, 2013.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan's surface
The shipwreck of the Silver Spray has rested a stone's throw from the Hyde Park shoreline for nearly 100 years—but it may not be around for much longer.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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What lies at the bottom of Lake Michigan
Five historic shipwrecks—and perhaps some preserved corpses
- Lit & Lectures, Book Review, Feb 26, 2013
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In Exit Zero, the personal implications of an industry's collapse
Christine Walley's memoir and academic treatise examines the first of the southeast Chicago steel mills to shut down—and its effect on the life of her father.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Review, Jan 22, 2013
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In "Climate of Uncertainty," it's a
carbon nationA dozen artists look at the natural world—and what we've done to it.
- Galleries & Museums, Art Feature, Dec 26, 2012
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Photo Issue 2012
A collection of reader-submitted images honoring Chicago's quiet-but-worthy moments
- News & Features, Mudville, Nov 14, 2012
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Surfing Sandy
Lake Michigan's turbulent waters offer die-hard surfers a prime opportunity to shred some waves
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 9, 2012
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Mayor Emanuel's dumping ground?
The city may be maneuvering to lift its moratorium on landfills
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 2011
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Chicago's leaky water system
History reveals that Emanuel won't change much about how the city taps its water supply.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 23, 2011
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Learn everything you wanted to know about the water you drink
The James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant, which provides Chicago with most of the one billion gallons of water it uses each day, is the biggest water treatment facility in the world.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 19, 2011
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Lake Michigan politely returns our trash
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 11, 2011
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Lake Michigan is sloshing around today
Today's strong winds caused an unusual and potentially dangerous weather phenomenon called a seiche on Lake Michigan.
- Best of Chicago, City Life, Jun 23, 2011
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Best Chicago attraction
Millennium Park/The Bean voted best Chicago attraction
- Best of Chicago, City Life, Jun 23, 2011
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Best look for Lake Michigan
Pastel and hazy
- News & Features, Mudville, May 18, 2011
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Waiting for the fish to bite in the Jackson Park Lagoon
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 28, 2011
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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.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 3, 2011
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Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana
Photography by Lloyd DeGrane. Text by Kari Lydersen.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2011
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Snowtos
Pictures of the 2011 blizzard, taken in Lincoln Park.
- News & Features, The Arts, May 6, 2010
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Wind Power in the Water?
A dark-side wind-power doc hits Evanston just as the town explores offshore turbines.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 9, 2010
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Fog
It just wasn't a night for certainty.
