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| Author: | HawaiiYou [ Mon Jul 17, 2017 11:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Chicago Riverwalk |
I went back last month to visit. First time in probably 11/12 years. That Chicago Riverwalk is great. Man I was so proud walking that thing. I remember that area was just there to take a piss in. The water taxi's and tour ships were a nice touch. Looks great. |
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| Author: | America [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
It's too much traffic on a narrow river. It's bad enough with Micheal P O'Neil and Kiowa every day and it gets terrifying when the Deegan comes through once a month or so. Already this year there have been a few narrowly averted disasters. The kayaks in particular have been gasoline on a fire since their inception. When I was working on the river back in HS/college it was bad, now it's a timebomb. That transient dock is at a terrible location, right around the blind bend at Wabash where traffic starts bottlenecking. |
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| Author: | America [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 12:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
It's still pretty cool when Morgan and tug Zeus do their little ballet in front of the locks with the Deegan. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Daley I vision and Daley II implementation. They usually got public spaces correct, just like any totalitarian leader. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
I can see a deer on the riverwalk from my building. Honestly, I never use it. Fuck having to walk up and down stairs to be closer to the disgusting look and smell of that sewer of a river. |
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| Author: | denisdman [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 7:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
There's been a lot of positive redevelopment in the city from the center out. I still recall the concrete jungle that was the UIC campus, a desolate south loop and a scary drive from downtown to the Chicago Stadium along Madison. The Riverwalk and Millennium Park are two solid additions to the core. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 8:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Agree on Millennium Park. The transformation of that area is awesome. Especially eating at the Gage. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote: Agree on Millennium Park. The transformation of that area is awesome. Especially eating at the Gage. Billy Lawless bars getting all sorts of mentions at the site this week |
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| Author: | pittmike [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
I agree on the Millennium Park mention. Actually the entire lakefront area as well as the river walk (viewed from a boat) seems very nice. I don't remember all the political Daley issues but I thought Millennium and all that renovation got him torched? |
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| Author: | denisdman [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
If memory serves it was behind schedule and way over budget. It turned out to be a centerpiece of the downtown area. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
denisdman wrote: If memory serves it was behind schedule and way over budget. It turned out to be a centerpiece of the downtown area. It was. Now it's become Mag Mile South. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
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| Author: | HawaiiYou [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 9:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
pittmike wrote: I agree on the Millennium Park mention. Actually the entire lakefront area as well as the river walk (viewed from a boat) seems very nice. I don't remember all the political Daley issues but I thought Millennium and all that renovation got him torched? Millennium Park for me was ok. Maybe if i was a kid i would have liked it better. I liked that Stadium area, looked cool with the metallaic overhang thing. The bean I just don't get. The water spout thing I liked but didnt participate. |
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| Author: | Curious Hair [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 10:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Yeah, I'm not crazy about the bean in and of itself but what's important is that they made something of the dumpy Illinois Central yards and terminal (Millennium Station isn't a masterpiece but from the pictures I've seen it's still a huge improvement). For a city that's so hung up on its lakefront as public space, it's become hard to imagine Chicago without Millennium Park. |
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| Author: | Passepartout [ Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
That is a long time 11 1/2 years. Hope you had a blast! |
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| Author: | a retard [ Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
denisdman wrote: If memory serves it was behind schedule and way over budget. It turned out to be a centerpiece of the downtown area. Agreed. I remember thinking at the time, "how can it cost $200 million to build a park?" but somehow it now seems worth it. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Every day I passed the bean, I'd tell a tourist that government secretly has someone living in there and they need to put their ear right up near the bottom to hear what's going on. |
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| Author: | formerlyknownas [ Wed Jul 19, 2017 7:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Curious Hair wrote: Yeah, I'm not crazy about the bean in and of itself but what's important is that they made something of the dumpy Illinois Central yards and terminal (Millennium Station isn't a masterpiece but from the pictures I've seen it's still a huge improvement). For a city that's so hung up on its lakefront as public space, it's become hard to imagine Chicago without Millennium Park. was an ugly waste of space before |
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| Author: | Regular Reader [ Wed Jul 19, 2017 8:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Since I haven't worked in the Loop for years and live near the lake anyway, I've never been either to the Riverwalk or the vanity project/dick picture that is Millennium Park. Maggie Daley park is a continuing f you from her cocksucker of a husband. A constant reminder of the fraud, personal enrichment and selling out by that idiot. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chicago Riverwalk |
Regular Reader wrote: Since I haven't worked in the Loop for years and live near the lake anyway, I've never been either to the Riverwalk or the vanity project/dick picture that is Millennium Park. Maggie Daley park is a continuing f you from her cocksucker of a husband. A constant reminder of the fraud, personal enrichment and selling out by that idiot. I wonder if Daley takes his twenty something girlfriends for walks through Maggie park and they ask him who that woman was. |
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