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Foster Avenue Beach

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Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Foster Avenue Beach
Phone:
+1 312-742-5121

Address:
5200 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60686-0001

The beaches in Chicago are an extensive network of waterfront recreational areas operated by the Chicago Park District. The Chicago metropolitan waterfront includes parts of the Lake Michigan shores as well as parts of the banks of the Chicago, Des Plaines, Calumet, Fox, and DuPage Rivers and their tributaries. The waterfront also includes the Illinois and Michigan Canal and the Sanitary and Ship Canal. Historically, the waterfront has been used for commerce, industry, and leisure. Leisure, such as fishing, swimming, hunting, walking and boating, was much more prevalent throughout the river sections of the waterfront system early in the 19th century before industrial uses altered the landscape. By midcentury, much leisure shifted to Lake Michigan as a result of industrial influence. The first City of Chicago Public Beach opened in Lincoln Park in 1895. Today, the entire 28 miles Chicago lakefront shoreline is man-made, and primarily used as parkland. There are twenty-four beaches in Chicago along the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan.Typically, Chicago beaches take the name of the east-west street that runs perpendicular to the lake at each beach's location.
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