Chicago Beaches

T beaches Chicago extensive network waterfront recreational areas Chicago P District. T Chicago Metropolitan waterfront includes parts L Michigan shores parts banks Chicago, D Plaines, Calumet, Fx, DuPage Rivers their tributaries. T waterfront includes Illinois Michigan Canal Sanitary Sp Canal. Historically, waterfront commerce, industry, leisure. Leisure, fishing, swimming, hunting, walking boating, prevalent throughout river sections waterfront system early nineteenth century before industrial altered landscape. By midcentury, leisure shifted L Michigan result industrial influence. T first Cy Chicago Public Beach opened Lincoln P 1895.

Today, entire 28 miles (45 ) Chicago lakefront shoreline -. There twenty lakefront beaches Chicago along shore L Michigan. T located within y parks. Currents action L Michigan north south, where eventually p Indiana Dunes. Winter storms erode Chicago's beaches, deposit others, requiring P District supplement yearly. T Chicago Lifeguard Service force largest nation, employing thousand guards summer (between Memorial Dy weekend Labor Dy weekend). Chicago swimable guarded waterfront y single municipality world. While y patrons complain about cleanliness water, Chicago boasts cleanest urban waterfront United States, second world y Stockholm; water tested daily y Chicago P District E. other dangers.