I watch a number of travel channels like yours. I like your entire way of telling stories as a couple. Historical accuracy is 100%, photography is always spot on. You bring a respectful joy to your travels. Loved the pirogi drop!
If you’re interested in Indiana dunes history, look up The Hoosier Slide. It was a huge sand dune back in the late 1800s but was slowly carted off because the sand was great for making glass jars that had a blue hue. The whole dune was gone within a few years. It was a major reason for preserving the dunes and the lakeshore from industry
Ever lived in New Buffalo, MI? Amazing beautiful town. lived in Chicago my whole life, recently visited up there. I thought of that when u mentioned US 12
Hey I’m a south end lake surfer and live in MC. I am all over these shorelines and love this area. Some of it can feel a bit industrial in modern times but the beauty of the lake and whisper of the dunes past shines through all over. Really like the videos but this one especially! Ironically you went to all the great surf spots along the south end of the lake. Looks like it was a little small but all those beaches get large waves all the time! Love all the info thanks Poppins and Viking “It’s frickin’ windy!” ❤️
That Amtrak from grand rapids to Chicago has an excellent view of the industrial lake shore. In grand rapids you want to be on the right side boarding in Chicago on the left looking up train for the best views.
Indeed, it's a nice trip on Amtrak. And the price is decent. When we've taken it 20 years ago it was always delayed due to freight trains. Has that changed?
@RestlessViking I've probably taken it a dozen times over the last 10 years. It's never been more than a few minutes late. I now more often take the train from kzoo to Chicago or drive to Michigan city & take the metra as the grand rapids depart & arrival often is not very convenient
Kazoo offers good service both ways. I've heard that line is slowly being upgraded to a high speed line with a good bit already there. We've been debated taking the train and making a video. I think it is a little known option for an adventure.
Another awesome adventure Chuck and Poppins! These just never get old, there is so much more out there to be explored and thanks to your efforts many of us get to experience these adventures with you! Happy New Year!!
You two are just brilliant...THANK YOU for this so cool bit of history....this is just awesome! Happy New Year to you both! And many more adventures!!!
I grew up and still live in Northwest Indiana. I was hoping you would produce a video like this continuing the trek on the “Chicago Road” and here it is. You even showed me a few things I didn’t know about like the Indiana/Illinois border marker and the Pierogi Drop😂. I spent my entire working life in those steel mills, mostly at US Steel’s Gary Works. Well done Chuck and Poppins.👍
Awesome video i love exploring from my couch so thank you for that The kiss at the end was a little suprising as i thought you two were brother and sister lol
Awesome! Thanks for showing the magic of the Midwest. Love to see the Lake and all the heavy industry out there. Stopped by Michigan City on our road trip, fun body surfing and cool light house!
You channel is such a GEM 💎! You two do an amazing job educating. The Midwest is so underrated and you two contribute a lot to bringing light to the forgotten glories of the area. Also, way to brave the crazy weather. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Happy New Year! Love learning about Michigan, and even though it’s our armpit, I’ve always had a fascination with that industrial shoreline. I first saw Blues Brothers at the Traverse City drive-in theater during our annual camping trip to Duck Lake in Interlochen. I was 8 years old, and my parents expected I’d fall asleep, July of 1980. 👍👊🇺🇸🤘
Wow, how the weather has changed. Long, long ago when I lived in Michigan (back in the previous millennium), you would have been in deep snow and that strong wind/rain would have been in near white out conditions. Times have changed. Thanks for making this video!
When I used to run the Michigan Australian Cattle Dog Rescue (1990-mid 2004), Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Park was my halfway spot for meeting adopters from Wisconsin, Southern Illinois and Iowa. What a special spot. "Industry" pronounced with emphasis on the middle syllable ("in-DUST ree") has to be your local accent. Here in SE Lower Michigan it is "IN-dust-ree"). Love your videos. We sure will need lots of recreational, local and affordable adventures to balm the next few years.
Love the history you discover and share from all around these Great Lakes. Just a shout out to Poppins. Recently, I got to meet you at a Doctors appointment in Grand Rapids with my wife. I wish there had been time to visit for awhile. Keep up the good work!
Love the video, my mom’s family is from up there (She’s from Valpo, Grandparents grew up in Gary and East Chicago) so I’ve heard a lot of stories from the past about it, especially about the Polish community.
Also from Michigan City pier you can see the Chicago skyline on clear days and the sun sets right over the skyline in late summer. Really a beautiful way to end your day
Way cool! Me and my kids actually spent New Years Eve at the same time as you, lol… AND we are fans of the Blues Brothers! Past visits we drove over the draw bridge, lol, so thanks so much for revealing the other bridge!!! This time we visited Muddy Water’s grave. We have been to the museum and Shedd’s Aquarium… but they love China Town and shopping the Miracle Mile the best ❤
Thanks Jamie! Outside of the video technical aspects, would you say the "road trip" aspect of the video was important? Or the history? Sorry for the questions, but it was a popular video and we're trying to get a idea of what features were most important.
@RestlessViking for me it was learning about the places along the way that I didn't know existed. We drive the I69-94-80 route between Michigan and Iowa very often and just never knew all the things we pass by every time. Have stayed at Indiana Dunes camping but didn't know about the history. Just very interesting details you provide. Will probably plan a trip down hwy 12 this summer because of your video.
Octavius Chanute was the first US service member killed in an aircraft wreck. Chanute Air Force Base is 80 miles or so South of Chicago,. It was last used as a training base for aircraft maintenance personnel.
The use of the term "Midway" to mean an area of a fair containing amusements, comes from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, where those amusements (including the Ferris Wheel) were laid out along Midway Plaisance (which is part of the park system).
The Aquatorium is in Marquette Park, which was built in 1919 to prevent another steel mill from being built on that land. As part of that process, Gary annexed the town of Miller, to the east of the park. Because the park mostly separates it from the rest of Gary, Miller Beach is still a somewhat separate community, and it's much more diverse than the rest of Gary. Quite a few artists and LGBT folks have moved there from Chicago over the years (and some still commute to or from Chicago). It's an example of what the rest of Gary could look like if it had more investment.
In your latest video, you were only a few miles away from where I live and of course, Michigan City and LaPorte we’re both a part of Michigan at one time. Always love to watch your videos.
Amazing folks! Thanks from Cambridge Ontario. ( where due south lies Erie, due east lies Ontario, due west lies Huron and due north lies Georgian Bay. ) Funny, yesterday evening I watched a documentary about Bethlehem Steel...
You 2 do a great job can’t Thank you enough truly love your channel ime a Viking and most of all the places you go been there but you give a great understanding of the history luv you both Lived in Michigan my whole there is so much to be had👍🤺🤗🏋️♀️👍☦️
Way cool, all the way through. I’m amazed you made it back into Indiana in time for the pierogi drop. Traffic was notoriously bad when I lived there. I need to get back to the Indiana Dunes National Park and see how it looks now. When I move to Chi-Town , I joined the Army Reserves, and we tore down some of the cottages that used to be there. Interesting stories I can’t share about what we found inside.
I didn’t know that obelisk was there at the state line. It used to be you knew you were crossing when you saw the big grain elevators that used to be there.
I hadn't known about the Aquatorium. I just now went to figure out a bicycle route to the Aquatorium from Door Village, one of my favorite places on the old Sauk Trail. It looks like it should be possible. (As you probably are well aware, the Sauk Trail coincides with the old Detroit-Chicago road and Hwy 12 for much of its way through Michigan.)
It's amazing how things get rated by USA today. Ludington got the number 1 spot for a ball drop, they do do a decent fireworks display downtown though..
This is a great channel. Michigander born and raised. I know my State. Thank you for the efforts of your teaching. We are literally sitting on things that are GREATER THAN GOLD in the future. We are the next CA. Not as exotic but we're life giving and our winters will lessen over time. We literally have fresh water oceans surrounding us (no sharks but we do have dinosaur Sturgeon that won't eat you). We come from a place that has melted ice sheets. Odd thing about 'climate change' is that when thy started measuring it, we were at a 10,000 year low (It was super cold). It's WARMING because we just came out of a 10,000 year low (super cold). It is what it is.
I'm from SoCal born and raised and Michigan is always been so intriguing. The inland seas are very neat. I hate the salt ocean and hope to come see the great lakes before I die. Looks very much like the ocean. Very cool. ❤
@@SHAGG13 We don't have the diverse ecological majesty like CA. We do have shades of it though. When you visit, I suggest the area of the 'Sleeping Bear Dunes'. The whole peninsula is beautiful.
@@ericsanger4408 yes something to be said for being able to ride your dirt bike in the morning skate/surf in the afternoon and then hit the snowboard after dinner .... Living where I do I can do all three in one day when I was younger in the 90s ... Aka tatooine hoth and endor in the same day lol.
great video. I live down the road and have visited most of what you highlighted, but of course you showed a few I haven't and taught me a few things. Thank you.
The shore of now-Lake Michigan rose and fell at least a couple times after humans arrived. There may be historic lake shore settlements 20 miles inland to 400 feet below the current surface, maybe a middle America analogy to the lost Doggerland
Third clip is the NIPSCO power plant in Michigan City. I grew up 2 mi from there. They are supposed to be closing that plant and tearing it down. I hope they sell it back to the city for what the city sold it for.
The 1893 World's Fair exhibit from Cypress was moved to an estate on Geneva Lake in SE WI. Unfortunately, it's since been torn down. The Yerkes refractor telescope, whose lense, the world's largest, was on display, is still in use at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay WI.
Detroit was once envisioned as the future city of economic lake and rail trade for western expansion into the 1800s.. Yet Lake Michigan proved to be a barrier at the same latitude of Detroit cut off opportunities as the rail lines had to route into Indiana to continue westward. Chicago had no lake barrier west of the city and the rest was history. Detroit instead focused on carriage making that led eventually to the auto industry.
Highly recommend looking up the Eastland disaster that happened a couple of blocks up the Chicago river from Wacker and Michigan Ave. So interesting and tragic. The marker is so easily overlooked. And has ties to Indiana and Michigan.
I watch a number of travel channels like yours. I like your entire way of telling stories as a couple. Historical accuracy is 100%, photography is always spot on. You bring a respectful joy to your travels. Loved the pirogi drop!
Thanks! To be honest, we are (sometimes) off on the history a little (the comments will often have a correction or two), but we try our best.
Illinoisan here, I love our Midwest. The heartland of a great land. God bless 🇺🇸❤️🤍🩵
If you’re interested in Indiana dunes history, look up The Hoosier Slide. It was a huge sand dune back in the late 1800s but was slowly carted off because the sand was great for making glass jars that had a blue hue. The whole dune was gone within a few years. It was a major reason for preserving the dunes and the lakeshore from industry
Thanks for this video, I have lived along US 12 in various communities my whole of 67 years. You did your research . You are a great story teller.
Wow, thank you!
Ever lived in New Buffalo, MI? Amazing beautiful town. lived in Chicago my whole life, recently visited up there. I thought of that when u mentioned US 12
Another Wonderful slice of history, that so many of us never would have known without you. Happy New Year to you too.🎉🎉🎉🎉
Hey I’m a south end lake surfer and live in MC. I am all over these shorelines and love this area. Some of it can feel a bit industrial in modern times but the beauty of the lake and whisper of the dunes past shines through all over. Really like the videos but this one especially! Ironically you went to all the great surf spots along the south end of the lake. Looks like it was a little small but all those beaches get large waves all the time! Love all the info thanks Poppins and Viking
“It’s frickin’ windy!” ❤️
That Amtrak from grand rapids to Chicago has an excellent view of the industrial lake shore. In grand rapids you want to be on the right side boarding in Chicago on the left looking up train for the best views.
Indeed, it's a nice trip on Amtrak. And the price is decent. When we've taken it 20 years ago it was always delayed due to freight trains. Has that changed?
@RestlessViking I've probably taken it a dozen times over the last 10 years. It's never been more than a few minutes late. I now more often take the train from kzoo to Chicago or drive to Michigan city & take the metra as the grand rapids depart & arrival often is not very convenient
Kazoo offers good service both ways. I've heard that line is slowly being upgraded to a high speed line with a good bit already there. We've been debated taking the train and making a video. I think it is a little known option for an adventure.
@@RestlessViking not a bad idea. You probably could multi-task a little and make a video in Chicago as well.
@@ASMRPeople Our thoughts too!
Another awesome adventure Chuck and Poppins! These just never get old, there is so much more out there to be explored and thanks to your efforts many of us get to experience these adventures with you! Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year to you too!
Great video!
Always look forward to the stories & history Poppin's & you share on your channel.
Great history. You two are awesome.
You two are just brilliant...THANK YOU for this so cool bit of history....this is just awesome! Happy New Year to you both! And many more adventures!!!
Happy New Year LadyYoop!
Appreciate you both handing out more pieces of history. Good stuff and enjoyed watching.
Happy new year Poppin&Chuck. Another great video 📹.
good stuff thanks for giving a pretty positive spin on Northwest Indiana and Chicago in general.
Great to know this history! Never knew a lot of this, thank you!
I grew up and still live in Northwest Indiana. I was hoping you would produce a video like this continuing the trek on the “Chicago Road” and here it is. You even showed me a few things I didn’t know about like the Indiana/Illinois border marker and the Pierogi Drop😂. I spent my entire working life in those steel mills, mostly at US Steel’s Gary Works. Well done Chuck and Poppins.👍
Greetings from Laporte!❤
Awesome video i love exploring from my couch so thank you for that
The kiss at the end was a little suprising as i thought you two were brother and sister lol
😂😂
Kinky...
Awesome! Thanks for showing the magic of the Midwest. Love to see the Lake and all the heavy industry out there. Stopped by Michigan City on our road trip, fun body surfing and cool light house!
Glad you enjoyed the video and the trip!
Awesome video and Happy New Year to you two as well. Thanks for continuing on the US12 Adventure!
Way cool! Another super interesting and relaxing video. It’s a beautiful combination. Thanks, kids!
You channel is such a GEM 💎! You two do an amazing job educating. The Midwest is so underrated and you two contribute a lot to bringing light to the forgotten glories of the area. Also, way to brave the crazy weather. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
Great content! Glad I was suggested the video by the algorithm haha
We're glad too! 😁
Amazing as always. Keep up the great videos.....Pete
Wonderful presentation and informative!
Happy New Year! Love learning about Michigan, and even though it’s our armpit, I’ve always had a fascination with that industrial shoreline. I first saw Blues Brothers at the Traverse City drive-in theater during our annual camping trip to Duck Lake in Interlochen. I was 8 years old, and my parents expected I’d fall asleep, July of 1980. 👍👊🇺🇸🤘
Wow, how the weather has changed. Long, long ago when I lived in Michigan (back in the previous millennium), you would have been in deep snow and that strong wind/rain would have been in near white out conditions. Times have changed. Thanks for making this video!
Father time looked spooky and a bit like Rasputin.
Agreed!
We drove from Chicago south side back home to Kalamazoo on Thanksgiving night in white out conditions. Fun drive!
Happy New Year, what a cool trip, always interesting, watch this channel a lot.❤
You two have such great adventures. I love the knowledge, it makes living here so much more meaningful.
When I used to run the Michigan Australian Cattle Dog Rescue (1990-mid 2004), Mount Baldy at Indiana Dunes National Park was my halfway spot for meeting adopters from Wisconsin, Southern Illinois and Iowa. What a special spot. "Industry" pronounced with emphasis on the middle syllable ("in-DUST ree") has to be your local accent. Here in SE Lower Michigan it is "IN-dust-ree"). Love your videos. We sure will need lots of recreational,
local and affordable adventures to balm the next few years.
You really put a lot of effort into researching this one. Great work, much obliged!
Love the history you discover and share from all around these Great Lakes. Just a shout out to Poppins. Recently, I got to meet you at a Doctors appointment in Grand Rapids with my wife. I wish there had been time to visit for awhile. Keep up the good work!
It was great to meet you, Glen, and your wife! Sending you healing vibes! I'm feeling better!
Thanks!
Thank you!
First time viewer from North Carolina, glad I ran into your show, quite enjoyable. Thank you for your work.
So much fun!
Thanks
Thanks for watching!
Interesting History South Shore.#🗽😁
You are amazing. I enjoy your travels.
A very interesting look at local history from Northern Indiana to Chicago.
Man, I really like when I go to your channel and see a local place that I go to often.
Wonderfull video, I grew up in LaPorte, just south of Michigan City.
Love the video, my mom’s family is from up there (She’s from Valpo, Grandparents grew up in Gary and East Chicago) so I’ve heard a lot of stories from the past about it, especially about the Polish community.
Also from Michigan City pier you can see the Chicago skyline on clear days and the sun sets right over the skyline in late summer. Really a beautiful way to end your day
@cardinalj DC Cook Nuclear plant in Bridgeman Mi has the same view.
Thanks for shareing,I'm a michigander on East side
Hello East Sider? (Is that a thing?)
A poet reading their own prose is a treat. Nice intro-visual poetry too.
What an amazing tour.
I never knew about the pierogi drop! That sounds amazing and makes me hungry for pirogis..i guess I'd better make some. And also plan for paçkis soon.
Way cool! Me and my kids actually spent New Years Eve at the same time as you, lol… AND we are fans of the Blues Brothers! Past visits we drove over the draw bridge, lol, so thanks so much for revealing the other bridge!!! This time we visited Muddy Water’s grave. We have been to the museum and Shedd’s Aquarium… but they love China Town and shopping the Miracle Mile the best ❤
Yea! Another video! Great content! I love the outfits Poppins and Chuck have at the pierogi drop!
Living in Michigan, I never knew anything about this area. Thanks.
I thoroughly enjoyed your hwy 12 videos. Interesting, well narrated and with some humor. Thank you!
Thanks Jamie! Outside of the video technical aspects, would you say the "road trip" aspect of the video was important? Or the history? Sorry for the questions, but it was a popular video and we're trying to get a idea of what features were most important.
@RestlessViking for me it was learning about the places along the way that I didn't know existed. We drive the I69-94-80 route between Michigan and Iowa very often and just never knew all the things we pass by every time. Have stayed at Indiana Dunes camping but didn't know about the history. Just very interesting details you provide. Will probably plan a trip down hwy 12 this summer because of your video.
@@jamie3529gq Thanks for taking the time to let us know!
Very cool show thank you my Viking friends 🤗👍🤺🏋️♀️☦️
Throughly enjoyed this video. Even though you both endured the hardship of the weather involved, it was very worth it.
Outstanding video!
Great video! Thanks!
Octavius Chanute was the first US service member killed in an aircraft wreck. Chanute Air Force Base is 80 miles or so South of Chicago,. It was last used as a training base for aircraft maintenance personnel.
Indiana is such a great state! People, we have more than cornfields! Come visit our great state.
Never heard of the Republic Statue. Always great interesting videos.
So much history here don’t need to go overseas
Another great video Chuck & Poppins happy new year!
"The Din & Smoke" sounds like a place you'd be found late into the night at a corner table covered in maps riddle with coffee stains.
😂😀😀😂 Dude! That is an awesome name for a seedy bar for adventurers!
@RestlessViking Would be a bar I'd visit habitually. Also, it's pronounced "Chanute" not "Chanute"
@@dane.proctor13 Hahahaha!
DANE! It's wonderful to hear from you!
@marthahayden6021 POPPINS! It's wonderful to hear from you too. Glad to see y'all having adventures and educating the Internet.
Loved this video! Small correction though, the first World's Fair in the New World was the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876.
You are correct! I misspoke in the video.
The use of the term "Midway" to mean an area of a fair containing amusements, comes from the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, where those amusements (including the Ferris Wheel) were laid out along Midway Plaisance (which is part of the park system).
The Aquatorium is in Marquette Park, which was built in 1919 to prevent another steel mill from being built on that land. As part of that process, Gary annexed the town of Miller, to the east of the park. Because the park mostly separates it from the rest of Gary, Miller Beach is still a somewhat separate community, and it's much more diverse than the rest of Gary. Quite a few artists and LGBT folks have moved there from Chicago over the years (and some still commute to or from Chicago). It's an example of what the rest of Gary could look like if it had more investment.
0:10 AYYYY THATS MY HOME
In your latest video, you were only a few miles away from where I live and of course, Michigan City and LaPorte we’re both a part of Michigan at one time. Always love to watch your videos.
Well sir, we should have stopped by! Tea, cookies, good conversation and all that!
And I missed an opportunity with Michigan City and LaPorte was in Michigan. Good catch!
Amazing folks! Thanks from Cambridge Ontario. ( where due south lies Erie, due east lies Ontario, due west lies Huron and due north lies Georgian Bay. ) Funny, yesterday evening I watched a documentary about Bethlehem Steel...
The Florida house is the prototype for the southern california homes of the 70s. Amazing
Chanute also designed the 310' tall, 2000+' long Kinzua bridge in NW PA. It's one of the longest and tallest bridges of its time.
You 2 do a great job can’t Thank you enough truly love your channel ime a Viking and most of all the places you go been there but you give a great understanding of the history luv you both Lived in Michigan my whole there is so much to be had👍🤺🤗🏋️♀️👍☦️
Way cool, all the way through. I’m amazed you made it back into Indiana in time for the pierogi drop. Traffic was notoriously bad when I lived there. I need to get back to the Indiana Dunes National Park and see how it looks now. When I move to Chi-Town , I joined the Army Reserves, and we tore down some of the cottages that used to be there. Interesting stories I can’t share about what we found inside.
I didn’t know that obelisk was there at the state line. It used to be you knew you were crossing when you saw the big grain elevators that used to be there.
You can also see on a clear day Chicago. You were in my home city, I leave near the coal cooling tower. Enjoyed the vid.
Great video!
I hadn't known about the Aquatorium. I just now went to figure out a bicycle route to the Aquatorium from Door Village, one of my favorite places on the old Sauk Trail. It looks like it should be possible. (As you probably are well aware, the Sauk Trail coincides with the old Detroit-Chicago road and Hwy 12 for much of its way through Michigan.)
Good video
Saw what once was soldier field in the background. Sad what happened to that stadium.
Thanks for the video, but I can't believe Poppins only just watched the Blues Brothers 😆
Same!
Well done. In the 1960s they did not teach the same Indiana History that you covered. Thanks for the update.
It's amazing how things get rated by USA today. Ludington got the number 1 spot for a ball drop, they do do a decent fireworks display downtown though..
After that last video I wondered if you were afraid to cross the border into the wilds of northwest Indiana. Welcome to Michigan City and Chicago!
😀NW Indiana is not a place to be taken lightly!
You might get pulled over for a 'cannabis check'
This is a great channel. Michigander born and raised. I know my State. Thank you for the efforts of your teaching. We are literally sitting on things that are GREATER THAN GOLD in the future. We are the next CA. Not as exotic but we're life giving and our winters will lessen over time. We literally have fresh water oceans surrounding us (no sharks but we do have dinosaur Sturgeon that won't eat you). We come from a place that has melted ice sheets. Odd thing about 'climate change' is that when thy started measuring it, we were at a 10,000 year low (It was super cold). It's WARMING because we just came out of a 10,000 year low (super cold). It is what it is.
I'm from SoCal born and raised and Michigan is always been so intriguing. The inland seas are very neat. I hate the salt ocean and hope to come see the great lakes before I die.
Looks very much like the ocean. Very cool.
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@@SHAGG13 We don't have the diverse ecological majesty like CA. We do have shades of it though. When you visit, I suggest the area of the 'Sleeping Bear Dunes'. The whole peninsula is beautiful.
@@ericsanger4408 yes something to be said for being able to ride your dirt bike in the morning skate/surf in the afternoon and then hit the snowboard after dinner .... Living where I do I can do all three in one day when I was younger in the 90s ... Aka tatooine hoth and endor in the same day lol.
And the climate change expert steps into the chat.
@ Stating facts does not make me an expert. It does make me a fact stating person though.
great video. I live down the road and have visited most of what you highlighted, but of course you showed a few I haven't and taught me a few things. Thank you.
Some really great history!
This is my neck of the woods
When I was young the Dunes was a summer playground. Discovered MI undertow near died good times.
I prefer that route when I go to Chicago.
The shore of now-Lake Michigan rose and fell at least a couple times after humans arrived. There may be historic lake shore settlements 20 miles inland to 400 feet below the current surface, maybe a middle America analogy to the lost Doggerland
Excellent!!!!!
Cool.
Third clip is the NIPSCO power plant in Michigan City. I grew up 2 mi from there. They are supposed to be closing that plant and tearing it down. I hope they sell it back to the city for what the city sold it for.
The 1893 World's Fair exhibit from Cypress was moved to an estate on Geneva Lake in SE WI. Unfortunately, it's since been torn down.
The Yerkes refractor telescope, whose lense, the world's largest, was on display, is still in use at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay WI.
Hay tell you again luv you both👍🤗🤺🏋️♀️☦️
Marijuana billboard detected, doesn't get much more Michigan border then that . 😂😂 haha. Very well done video .
Ok so I subscribed luv it 🤺👍🤗☦️
Welcome to the channel!
Detroit was once envisioned as the future city of economic lake and rail trade for western expansion into the 1800s..
Yet Lake Michigan proved to be a barrier at the same latitude of Detroit cut off opportunities as the rail lines had to route into Indiana to continue westward. Chicago had no lake barrier west of the city and the rest was history.
Detroit instead focused on carriage making that led eventually to the auto industry.
As someone who lives in NWI and frequents these places.. Job well done!
Thank you!
Yes I lament the passing of world fairs saw the ny worlds fair.
Me too. They looked to be amazing and inspiring.
Highly recommend looking up the Eastland disaster that happened a couple of blocks up the Chicago river from Wacker and Michigan Ave. So interesting and tragic. The marker is so easily overlooked. And has ties to Indiana and Michigan.
Love your channel my name is James my last name is Erickson lol🤗
glad you had a great new year , Hope you have a great 2025
Wishing you a great 2025 too!
Do you think the enemies of the USA have not noticed this?
Great videos.
Thanks for going to Chicago so we don’t have to! 😄
Fun Fact: Northerly Island was built from sand barged over from the Indiana dunes.
Sub'd! great stuff