Walking Chicago's Coast by Michael McColly - 9781501783142

Name: Walking Chicago's Coast by Michael McColly - 9781501783142
Brand: Cornell University Press

Cornell University Press

Walking Chicago's CoastA 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes\nAuthor(s): Michael McColly\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Northern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501783142, 978-1501783142\nSynopsis\nBlending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago's Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his farNorth Side Chicago apartment and proceeds for two long days along the shore of Lake Michigan to the Indiana Dunes National Park. As he walks, McColly reflects on the layers of history, the constructed magnificence, and the troubling divides in this polyglot mecca of the Midwest. \n\n From its descriptions of grand parks and architecture to packed sandy beaches to polluted neighborhoods called \""sacrifice zones\"" along industrial waterways and rivers, Walking Chicago's Coast shows how such urban hiking lets one contemplate a city's grandeur and history, confront environmental .