Ferry-tale: Could a Chicago-to-Michigan Ferry Return from Extinction?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2015

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Lake Michigan was once a passenger steamer superhighway. Could a Chicago-to-Michigan route make a comeback?

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0:00.0	When we're the...
0:03.0	What school's the...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they give the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's Curious City.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions...
0:17.0	About Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm reporter Chloe Prasinos.
0:22.8	This time we're talking transportation.
0:25.0	Like, okay, so you want to get away from the big city for the weekend.
0:28.6	God knows there's far more than your destination to consider, especially if you're bound to a car.
0:34.7	There's the cost of gas and tolls, the stress of construction and traffic.
0:40.9	Sometimes it can feel easier to just stay home. Chances are you find yourself wishing there were a
0:47.8	different way to escape the city. Much like this week's question asker Barbara Lang. Barbara has
0:53.7	lived in Chicago for decades, always by the water,
0:56.9	and in the summer she takes trips to southwestern Michigan to get away from it all.
1:01.5	I just love to kind of poke around. I love to relax, take walks down by the lake.
1:05.9	There's lots of beautiful rocks that you find on Lake Michigan over there on the sands.
1:10.0	And then, on Sunday, Barbara
1:12.1	gets in her car to head back home to Chicago, and inevitably, I-94 looks more like a parking
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