That's really awesome! I had no idea about that in Chicago. I thought Toronto's urban beaches, the ones seperated from the water on the lake front, were cool, but these are even better.
The great thing about Lake Michigan is that it is so deep and massive, and forms one of the two heads of the Great Lakes System (the other being Lake Superior), so even though it has major metropolitan areas on its shores, there is always large amounts of fresh water being added to the lake. While Lake Ontario, being the last lake in the system, gets all of the water (including their pollutants) from Lake Erie and all 3 of the other lakes, so it is quite murky and uninviting (at least at the beaches I've been too)
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