Chicago the windy city

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A view of Chicago from Navy Pier

This June I had the fabulous opportunity of visiting the windy city - Chicago.

My Lufthansa flight was via Chicago & I decided to give a halt there to visit my cousin Sudarshan Rao & family. Man, it indeed turned out to be a great experience. Never had I seen such a concentration of tall buildings (yet to visit The City).

I had the opportunity to fly over Lake Michigan & also to go on a motor boat on it. Even from flight, most of the times I couldn’t the shores of the lake. Water, water & water all the time. It’s a fresh water lake & its 494 Km in length & 190 KM in width! If only we had so much of fresh water in India

I had the pleasure to go for boat ride on Chicago river. Do you know that it’s the first reverse flowing river in the world….. you didn’t understand? Well, the direction of flow of the river has been reversed by the Americans! There is a big story behind it. The boat ride was essentially an architectural journey. Our boat guide told us about a lot of history of Chicago…..about the criminal & political history of the city…..about the great fire of 1871 which burned down the entire city of Chicago!….about the reason behind reversing the flow of the river Chicago (because of Typhoid)….& many more things. It was quite fascinating.

We then had great food & then went to Sears Tower which is the 3rd highest tower in the world (& who’s architect is an Indian!). It was the world’s tallest building for over 20 years. I took couple of snaps from top of the tower.

Stay at my cousins home was great!

3 ways of transportation - road, water & rail! (It’s the River Chicago which flows through the city)