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City Life, Feature Apr 1, 2021
A day in the life of Chicago’s Canada Geese

The birds are flocking to the city for survival.
- By Caroline Catherman
- Tags: Feature, Canada Goose, Canada Geese, DuSable Harbor, Lake Shore Drive, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Maggie Daley Park, Audobon’s Guide to North American Birds

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 30, 2020
Video
We should rename Chicago’s shoreline highway DuSable Drive, but we don’t have to drop LSD

Renaming the landmark for Chicago’s Black founder would be a game-changer, but we can still also refer to Lake Shore Drive by its iconic appellation.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, Lake Shore Drive, DuSable Drive, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, Toni Preckwinkle, David Moore, Ed Burke, Ephraim Martin, Black Heroes Matter, Sophia King, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Patch, Mark Konkol, Alliota Haynes Jeremiah, “Lake Shore Drive”, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Mar 19, 2019
Where do Lori and Toni part ways on transportation issues?

And are we at risk of having a motorhead as mayor?
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: On Transportation, Toni Preckwinkle, Lori Lightfoot, transportation, 2019 mayoral election, walking, biking, transit, bus lanes, Loop Link, Lake Shore Drive, Active Transportation Alliance, CTA, Metra, Pace, O’Hare Express, Elon Musk, bike ticketing, gas tax

News & Politics, Feature Aug 7, 2018
Slideshow
‘This is a march of civil disobedience’ [PHOTOS]

Scenes from last week's protest that shut down Lake Shore Drive
- By Olivia Obineme
- Tags: Feature, News, Photography, gun violence, lake shore drive, shutdown, protest, march, chicago, olivia obineme, civil disobedience, chicago cubs, wrigley field, wrigleyville, greg livingston, tio hardiman, ameena matthews, joe olszewski, mayor rahm emanuel, eddie johnson, cpd, chicago police department, LSD, Slideshow

News & Politics, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
Chicago charges the highest rates for street parking in the nation

Surrendering your credit card to the paybox summons the specter of Daley's awful 2008 meter privatization deal.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Worst of Chicago, Parking metes, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Lake Shore Drive

Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Oct 24, 2017
Video
Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah cut Chicago's favorite song about LSD in 1971

Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah's "Lake Shore Drive (L.S.D.)" recently appeared on the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but the band's last surviving member died this month.
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: The Secret History of Chicago Music, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Mitch Aliotta, Ted Aliotta, Skip Haynes, John Jeremiah, Proper Strangers, Rotary Connection, Marshall Chess, Chess Records, Ampex, Big Foot, Bang Records, Lake Shore Drive, Lake Shore Drive (L.S.D.), Snow Queen, Paragon Recording, Ter-Mar Studios, Marty Feldman, Slippin' Away, Minnie Riperton, Rose Records, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Jerry Jeff Walker, Mr. Bojangles, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 6, 2017
Video
Stephen Paddock rented two Michigan Avenue hotel rooms overlooking Lollapalooza but never showed up, and other Chicago news

Also, Cubs home playoff tickets are the most expensive in the MLB..
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas, gun violence, mass shootings, Lollapalooza, Blackstone Hotel, Bank of America Chicago Marathon, Chicago Police Department, sweetened beverage tax, soda tax, pop tax, Cook County Board, John Daley, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, Skip Haynes, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field, MLB playoffs, New York Yankees, Video

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Oct 4, 2017
Critical Mass is still crazy after all these years—but is the bike ride still relevant?

Twenty years after the influential monthly cycling event began, Chicago is a far more bike-friendly city.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: Transportation, Critical Mass, Active Transportation Alliance, Rat Patrol, Phyllis' Music Inn, Crotch, Wicker Park, Lake Shore Drive, Michael Burton, Jim Redd, Cycling, Divvy

Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 22, 2017
Chicagoans are big-city folk who’re midwestern nice

Pleasantries help Chicago remain a beautiful, complicated city that works.
- By Megan Stielstra
- Tags: Reasons to love Chicago, midwestern niceness, midwest, Lake Shore Drive, manners, the city that works

Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2017
Mel Brooks, Bike the Drive, and more things to do in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend

A Memorial Day parade, Baderbrawl, and more happenings from May 26-28
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Hot Dog Architecture, LetherB+B, Baderbrawl, Baderbräu, 26, Pride Arts Center, Memorial Day parade, Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein, Chicago Theatre, You Only Live Once More, Frontier Theater, Randolph Street Market, Plumbers Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, Cauleen Smith, Bike the Drive, Lake Shore Drive, ChitChat: Hack Your Period, East Room, Femdot, Schubas

Blogs, Bleader May 27, 2016
The best things to do in Chicago during Memorial Day 2016 weekend

Beyonce, Bike the Drive, Crap Beer Day, and more happenings from May 27-30.
- By Marc Daalder
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Gelato World Tour, Millennium Park, Mole de Mayo, 18th and Ashland, Beyonce, Soldier Field, Simmer Brown, Bughouse Theater, Belmont-Sheffield Music Festival, Bike the Drive, Lake Shore Drive, Aloha (a vigil), Aloha, Logan Square, Crap Beer Day, Thalia Hall, Logan Monument, Grant Park, Grave Miasma, Reggie's

Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Dec 22, 2015
The North Lake Shore Drive rehab should swap mixed-traffic lanes for bus lanes

IDOT isn't seriously considering this option, but they should be.
- By John Greenfield
- Tags: Transportation, Lake Shore Drive, IDOT, CDOT, transportation, transit, buses, Charles Papanek, John Baczek, Ron Burke, Mike Claffey, Peter Skosey, Gianna Urgo

Arts & Culture, Book Review Jul 13, 2015
A New Yorker writer looks back on his quest for the perfect wave

In Barbarian Days, William Finnegan reflects on a lifetime of surfing.
- By Mark Sorkin
- Tags: Book Review, William Finnegan, Lake Shore Drive, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, New Yorker, surfing, memoir

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Nov 5, 2014
The Lucas Museum is off-limits

But the Chicago Park District wants your input on the Museum Campus.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Museum Campus, Lake Shore Drive, the Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, Rahm Emanuel, George Lucas, Chicago Park District, City Council, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Friends of the Parks, Chicago Cultural Plan, Gia Biagi, Chicago Department of Transportation, Jeffrey Sriver, Grant Park Conservancy, Bob O'Neill, Jacqueline Sloan, Lauren Moltz, Cassandra Francis, "Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume", Star Wars

Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Escape From Navy Pier

Milton Lee Olive Park
- By Molly Adams
- Tags: City Life, Best of Chicago 2014, Milton Lee Olive III, Navy Pier, James W. Jardine Water Filtration Plant, Lake Shore Drive, parks, Milton Lee Olive Park, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2014
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
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Bike the Drive, Lake Shore Drive, Second City's Neighborhood Tour, Second City, Old Town, Invisible Things, Mark Shippy, Jim Sykes, Martin Bisi, Burlington, Michael Zerang

Blogs, Bleader Sep 8, 2013
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
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Half Marathon, Jackson Park, Lake Shore Drive, Soldier Field, the Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Renegade Craft, Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festiva, Gabe Klinger, Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 2, 2013
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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey

Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Pal Joey, Rodgers and Hart, New York Times, Brooks Atkinson, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, John O'Hara, Lake Shore Drive, Cabaret, Chicago, Porchlight Music Theatre, Michael Weber, I'm Talking to My Pal, Callie Johnson, Gypsy Rose Lee, Matt Orlando, Kiss Me, Kate, Doug Peck, Jeremy Kahn, Brenda Didier, Bill Morey, Flower Garden of My Heart, Ziegfeld Follies, Susie McMonagle, Laura Savage, Sharriese Hamilton, Steven Pringle, Steven Pringle, Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Gene Kelly, Adrian Aguilar, Jonathan Larson, Tick, Tick . . . Boom!, The Threepenny Opera, Paul Newman, The Hustler, Stage 773

News & Politics, Zoom in Feb 19, 2013
Zoom in: Near North Side

The Lakefront Path's intersection at Illinois Avenue is congested . . . and confusing
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Zoom in, Near North Side, Navy Pier, Grand, Lake Shore Drive, Illinois, cycling, pedestrians, Chicago Plan Commission, Navy Pier Flyover

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2012
How I won the marathon*

My record in the Chicago marathon didn't last
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Mudville, Marathon Week, Sports, Variations on a Theme, marathons, Chicago marathon, Pan-American marathon, Mayor Daley Marathon, Chicago Motor Club, Richard J. Daley, Daley Center, Paul Ryan, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park Zoo, Lake Shore Drive, Grant Park, Field Museum, Soldier Field, Promontory Point, Buckingham Fountain, Boston Marathon, Heartbreak Hill, New York City marathon, Tribune, Dan Cloeter.

Blogs, Bleader Nov 30, 2011
The nostalgia of architecture and the architecture of nostalgia

Robert Powers captures the "Cubic Zirconium Coast."
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Architecture Week, Architecture, Variations on a Theme, Architecture Week, architecture, Whet Moser, Hausner & Macsai, Robert Hauser, John Macsai, Lake Shore Drive, Harbor House, Robert Powers, A Chicago Sojourn, Purple Hotel, high-rises, Hollywood Avenue, Loyola University, Sheridan Road, Cubic Zirconium Coast, nostalgia, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2010
Fog

It just wasn't a night for certainty.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Hack, fog, weather, city, Chicago, Navy Pier, Lake Shore Drive, Lake Michigan, Hack, Dmitry Samarov

News & Politics, Feature Mar 4, 2010
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.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Feature, Hyde Park, Hyde Park history, Kenwood, Midway Plaisance, Stephen Douglas, Paul Cornell, Illinois Central, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Evans, Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Jackson Park, Columbian Exhibition, World's Fair, White City, Palace of Fine Arts, Museum of Science and Industry, Old University of Chicago, John D. Rockefeller, Gothic architecture, Marshall Field, the Midway, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Great Books, Stagg Field, urban renewal, Hyde Park-Kenwood Community, South East Chicago Commission, SECC, One in Spirit, Mike Nichols, Lake Shore Drive, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robie House, DuSable Museum of African American History, Hyde Park Art Center, Court Theatre, Renaissance Society, Smart Museum, 57th Street Art Fair, Doc Films, Mandel Hall, Harper Court

Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2009
Video
Timelapsing Chicago
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Visual Art, time-lapse video, Bruno Pieroni, Chicago videos, Lake Shore Drive, Chicago Opera Theater, Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah, St. Patrick's Day, dyeing the river, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2009
Free Bike Tours
- By Nicholas Teddy
- Tags: Bicycling, Free Shit, Cycling, Swag, bike tour, burnham, daniel burnham, lakeshore, lake shore drive, campaign for a free and clear lakefront, lincoln square, free

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