{"id":15900,"date":"2020-05-09T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2020-04-05T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T19:28:40","slug":"200-things-to-do-in-illinois-lake-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/200-things-to-do-in-illinois-lake-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Things To Do In Illinois \u2013 Lake Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 With the state still shut down due to the corona virus outbreak, I figured this was the second-best time to look through this collection and cover the ones I\u2019ve done\/eaten\/seen.<\/p>\n

We continue things this week with one of the entries from the Nature category: Lake Michigan, from Chicago, IL.<\/p>\n

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You didn’t think we’d forget about this freshwater ocean at Chicago’s front door, did you?\u00a0 Don’t just look at it.\u00a0 Get in it.\u00a0 And on it.\u00a0 Departing from Navy Pier, Shoreline Sightseeing’s Classic Lake Tour is a 40-minute nautical jaunt along 6 miles of the Third Coast.\u00a0 From the water, you get a better appreciation for the city’s skyline, a human-made mountain range.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s hard to document my experiences visiting Chicago’s lakefront.\u00a0 I’ve taken the occasional lunch cruise as part of work outings.\u00a0 I’ve spent a little time on the beach, most notably for a mid-80s television competition between the Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks.\u00a0 The picture above is from the museum campus, over by the Adler Planetarium.<\/p>\n

If anything, I wish I could spend more time down by the lake.\u00a0 Living far out in suburbia doesn’t make it easy, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Illinois celebrated its bicentennial as a state in December of 2018.\u00a0 To celebrate, the Chicago Tribune published the Bicentennial Bucket List: 200 Things To Do In Illinois, celebrating the best the state has to offer in history, food, architecture, culture, sports, nature, drink, and oddities.\u00a0 With the state still shut down due to the corona […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,8856,555,1772,2878,8844,3466],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-bears","tag-bicentennial-bucket-list","tag-blackhawks","tag-bulls","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-corona-virus","tag-navy-pier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15902,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}