My mom and her sisters (all with the skin tone 255/255/255) spent way too many days turning themselves into rotisserie chickens here over the years. That’s one of millions of stories, ranging from shipwrecks to chicanery, plucky birds to an African American rodeo scene, that have unfolded along Chicago’s amazing lakefront. Having grown up in Illinois & visited hundreds of times over the years, I really enjoyed this tour from WTTW & Geoffrey Baer: