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

Memphis stinkpotters like McKellar Lake, inside the city limits, and sailors look for autumn winds at Arkabutla Lake where fall racing is now in progress.

Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.

The main basin is the Mus Valley, west of Lake Van.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

Most of Armenia is drained by the Araks or its tributary, the Hrazdan, which flows from Lake Sevan.

Another environmental concern is a significant drop in Lake Sevan's water level because of drawdowns for irrigation and the diversion of water to hydroelectric plants to compensate for the electric power lost through the inactivity of the nuclear plant at Metsamor.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

Shown is a sign indicating an accessible fishing platform at Drano Lake, Washington ( state ) | Washington.

* 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7. 5 1959 Yellowstone earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

Towards the south the two lines converge and give place to one great valley ( occupied by Lake Nyasa ), the southern part of which is less distinctly due to rifting and subsidence than the rest of the system.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

There is, however, in the centre a circular basin occupied by Lake Tsana.

The first is being planned for Lake Havasu City with programs available as early as fall 2012.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

* Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the U. S .- Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec and partially situated across the Vermont-New York border.

Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.