What’s Underneath Chicago’s Urban Parks? Disappointment, If You’re a Worm

Written By Editor on January 17, 2021 in Lakeshore East, New East Side, Parks, The Loop, _story

It’s always fun to listen in to tourists at Millennium Park ooh-ing and aah-ing at the amazing job the City of Chicago has done preserving such a large slice of nature in the heart of the city. The vast majority of them don’t know that underneath the wild-looking flowerbeds, the stately lawns, and the carefully channeled rivulet is a vast parking garage, and a commuter train station. But that’s OK. They came to...