Night scenes will add an exciting touch to your vacation travelogue and what better place to take them then along Chicago's Lake Shore Drive??

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.

The Chicago River is the south border ( right ) of the Near North Side, Chicago | Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border ( left ) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center ( from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower ( Chicago ) | Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center )

Chicago Half Marathon on Lake Shore Drive next to Harold Washington Park on the South Side ( Chicago ) | South Side

Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront.

The Loop's historic buildings include the Chicago Board of Trade Building, the Fine Arts Building, 35 East Wacker, and the Chicago Building, 860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Mies van der Rohe.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

His significant projects in the U. S. include in Chicago and the area: the residential towers of 860 – 880 Lake Shore Dr, the Chicago Federal Center complex, the Farnsworth House, Crown Hall and other structures at IIT ; and the Seagram Building in New York.

860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois

Mies designed a series of four middle-income high-rise apartment buildings for developer Herb Greenwald: the 860 – 880 ( which was built between 1949 and 1951 ) and 900 – 910 Lake Shore Drive towers on Chicago's Lakefront.

During 1951 – 1952, Mies ' designed the steel, glass, and brick McCormick House, located in Elmhurst, Illinois ( 15 miles west of the Chicago Loop ), for real-estate developer Robert Hall McCormick, Jr. A one story adaptation of the exterior curtain wall of his famous 860 – 880 Lake Shore Drive towers, it served as a prototype for an unbuilt series of speculative houses to be constructed in Melrose Park, Illinois.

His own practice was based on intensive personal involvement in design efforts to create prototype solutions for building types ( 860 Lake Shore Drive, the Farnsworth House, Seagram Building, S. R. Crown Hall, The New National Gallery ), then allowing his studio designers to develop derivative buildings under his supervision.

* Lake Shore Drive Apartments – Residential Apartment Towers, Chicago

On Toronto's Lake Shore Drive, many were simply bulldozed and the now-valuable urban land used for condominiums and urban development.

Cycling conditions on Lake Road, North Shore City, prior to the introduction of cycle lanes in the 2000s.

The logging industry expanded significantly in 1889 when Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern Railway built a station in the center of town.

Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Toledo under the Capitol Limited and the Lake Shore Limited.

* October 10 – The Alpha Delta Gamma Fraternity is founded at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University, Chicago.

* March 27 – The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.

The reality was that the Lincoln Park Board had worked to fill in the shoreline in that area, allowing them to build Lake Shore Drive on the infill.

Lakeside Center looking south from Lake Shore Drive and 18th Street in 2007

The North Building, located west of Lake Shore Drive and completed in 1986, is connected to the East Building by an enclosed pedestrian bridge.

Image: 20070110 McCormick Place ( 1 ). JPG | South Building from Lake Shore Drive looking northwest in 2007

* Lake Shore

Lake Michigan offers swimming and pictures which combine cityscapes with beaches.

And on northern shores indomitable sailors from Long Island to Lake Michigan will beat around the buoys in dozens of frostbite races.

Among these may be mentioned: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona ; Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado ; Amethyst Mountain, Texas ; Yellowstone National Park ; Delaware County, Pennsylvania ; Haywood County, North Carolina ; Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.

E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula Lake Superior in Michigan.

Locations include the Cyclopean Islands east off Sicily and near Trentino in northern Italy ; Victoria in Australia ; Kerguelen Island in the Indian Ocean ; in the Lake Superior copper district of Michigan, Bergen Hill, New Jersey, Golden, Colorado, and at Searles Lake, California in the United States ; and at Cape Blomidon, Nova Scotia and Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in Canada ; and in Iceland.

Chicago's location on Lake Michigan gave access to a vast inland territory, and it was well-served by railroads.

Cadillac experiences a typical northern Michigan climate, undergoing temperate seasonal changes, influenced by the presence of Lake Michigan and the inevitable lake effect.

The stadium is located next to Lake Michigan, and was recently remodeled in a modernization intended to update stadium amenities while preserving a historic Chicago structure.

* Lake Cadillac, a lake in Cadillac, Michigan

The first curling club in the United States was organized in 1830 only 30 miles from Detroit, at Orchard Lake, Michigan.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

The city responded by tunneling two miles ( 3 km ) out into Lake Michigan to newly built water cribs.

In 1900, the problem of sewage contamination was largely resolved when the city reversed the flow of the Chicago River so that it flowed away from Lake Michigan, rather than into it.

Chicago is located in northeastern Illinois on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan.

The city lies beside huge freshwater Lake Michigan, and two rivers — the Chicago River in downtown and the Calumet River in the industrial far South Side – flow entirely or partially through Chicago.

Chicago is a world port city as the St Lawrence Seaway connects Lake Michigan with the Atlantic Ocean.

Chicago's history and economy are closely tied to its proximity to Lake Michigan.

A man diving into Lake Michigan.

The river serves as an important transportation route connecting Lake Michigan, Huron, and Superior to the St. Lawrence Seaway and Erie Canal.

Following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1817, which opened up easier travel to Lake Erie from the East Coast of the United States, the Detroit River became a heavily traversed route for settlers traveling to northern Michigan, and Detroit, as well, experienced a sudden increase in population.

From the interior to the outlet at the St. Lawrence River, water flows from Superior to Huron and Michigan, southward to Erie, and finally northward to Lake Ontario.

" Of the five lakes, Lake Michigan is the only one that is located entirely within the United States ; the others form a water border between the United States and Canada.

Gary is located adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and borders Lake Michigan.