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Jake Bittle and Rachel Schastok

Posted inBridgeport, Development, Uncategorized

Without a Paddle

by Jake Bittle and Rachel Schastok June 2, 2014June 8, 2014

Rahm Emanuel noted in a 2011 press release that if Lake Michigan was Chicago’s “front yard,” then the Chicago River ought to be treated as the city’s “backyard,” and embraced as its “next recreational frontier.”

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