The Windy City is one of America’s sports meccas: home to the Bears and the Bulls, the Sox and the Cubs, and, Chicagoans are only recently willing to admit, the Blackhawks. But can it become Surf City, U.S.A.?
This week, Chicago Park District’s governing board empowered the city superintendent to lift a decades-old ban on the use of flotation devices like boogie boards on the city’s waterways. (The ordinance was established to prevent accidental drownings; government officials were chiefly concerned about liability, and the prospect that novice swimmers, imitating highly skilled surfers, might leap into Lake Michigan, especially in harsh winter conditions.) The move will effectively …Â Details
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