How Has Chicago’s Coastline Changed Over The Decades?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2012

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Curious citizen Miriam Reuter wondered how Chicago's coastline has changed over the decades. We learn that from nature to industry and back again (sorta), the lakefront’s changed so much that city founders wouldn’t recognize it.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the afternoon shift on WBZ with me Rick Kogan.
0:13.7	It has become my favorite part of the week.
0:16.9	I enjoy getting up every day and realizing I can still walk,
0:20.7	but my favorite part of the week is Curious City.
0:23.1	I'm welcoming the senior producer of this segment, Jennifer Brandell, is in here.
0:30.9	WB reporter Robin Amor is in here with a special guest.
0:36.1	Curious City, and I don't, you people love Curious City.
0:38.7	I don't need to tell you what it is.
0:39.9	You call in, you ask a question, and they go about finding out these great secrets of Chicago.
0:44.8	Jen, hi.
0:45.4	Nice to see you.
0:46.3	That's right.
0:46.8	That's what we do.
0:47.5	And we bring you along with us, too.
0:49.1	So when you ask a question, oftentimes you'll get to accompany us on a little bit of reporting. So in studio, our special
0:54.8	guest that you mentioned is Miriam Reuter, and she asked us a question a few months ago. And
1:00.9	what was that question, Miriam? My question was, how has the Chicago coastline change over
1:05.8	the decades?
1:07.0	Why would a kid from Cincinnati ask a question like that? I find it, I find that, I find it a
1:11.5	wonderful, wonderful question. And I'm sure there was no easy answer, Robin, but why would you,
1:18.3	what intrigued you? Well, full disclosure, the question was actually a friend of my more bouncing
1:23.8	questions back and forth. In order to call Curious City. Yeah, because I got the...
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