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The strange case of an out-of-service CTA bus picking up passengers
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Chicago beaches are still not (fully) closed - but the city is somewhat enforcing it
Back on July 4, I wrote about how, even though Chicago beaches were officially closed, it wasn't enforced in any practical way, and questioned the wisdom of even having the closure on the books.
The next evening, I visited Loyola Beach - and saw the police car parked smack in the middle of it.
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If there is nothing stopping Chicagoans from going to the beach,are the beaches really closed?
Back when the City of Chicago and the State of Illinois started imposing stay-at-home restrictions to try to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, people would congregate on the Lakeshore Trail (which, as the name implies, follows most of the Chicago portion of the shore of Lake Michigan) and many lakefront parks and beaches. Worried about social ( Read more... )