What If Chicago’s Lakefront Really Were Wide Open To All?

“Chicagoans love to brag about their open, people-friendly lakefront. In reality, 4 of the city’s 30 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline are unavailable to the public” — “an outrageous violation of Daniel Burnham’s ringing epigram that the lakefront ‘by right belongs to the people.'” An advocacy group’s new plan would give it back to them, plugging “these holes with 2 miles of new parkland on both the north and south lakefronts.”