{"id":23884,"date":"2026-04-27T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23884"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:46:29","slug":"a-love-letter-to-the-chicago-lakefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/a-love-letter-to-the-chicago-lakefront\/","title":{"rendered":"A love letter to the Chicago lakefront"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&#8217;s one of millions of stories, ranging from shipwrecks to chicanery, plucky birds to an African American rodeo scene, that have unfolded along Chicago&#8217;s amazing lakefront. Having grown up in Illinois &amp; visited hundreds of times over the years, I really enjoyed this tour from WTTW &amp; Geoffrey Baer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Touring Chicago&#039;s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer \u2014 Full Show\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3r8EkDpfdP0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s one of millions of stories, ranging from shipwrecks to chicanery, plucky birds to an African American rodeo scene, that have unfolded along Chicago&#8217;s amazing lakefront. Having grown up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23885,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23884\/revisions\/23885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}