The Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk is a former industrial brownfield site lovingly re-developed for the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
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The Great Chicago Fire: a Calamity that Reset a City
You’ve heard of the Great Chicago Fire. Here’s how it formed the city? Our architecture, our shoreline and even the library system rose from those flames.
A Softer Alternative to Chicago’s Concrete Shoreline
Chicago has just proposed a new 6 acre extension to the shoreline park at Fullerton Avenue complete with new concrete revetment. Having recently combed the sand dunes of Indiana’s Lake Michigan shore, we wonder about softer shore styles they might have considered. Surely concrete barricades aren’t the only strategy for interfacing between land and water at the city’s edge … maybe […]