God In Chicago

A podcast about Chicago would be incomplete without a ride on Lake Shore Drive, the beautiful highway that traces the lakefront, taking you from the city’s northernmost neighborhoods to those at its southern edge.Lake Shore Drive is best experienced when there is lighter traffic, either at night with the city lights on one side and the dark abyss of the lake on the other, or in the morning, where the full life of the lake is on display. The joggers and cyclists along the lakefront, the 40-mile per hour, easy riding place of the traffic, the miles of parks and trees which run along the drive , and the breath-taking architecture of the city unfold as you go from the south to the north side.I have taken the drive today all the way to the northern end of Lake Shore Drive, which deposits travelers in the neighborhood of Edgewater, just blocks from the lake. I drive through quiet, tree-lined blocks of pretty good sized two-story homes, spacious two and three story homes, and brick apartment buildings. It’s the kind