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An aerial shot of Northerly Island in Chicago with a part at the southern edge circled. There is a concrete platform there with large metal grates on the surface and a hard concrete wall on the edge for some reason.

Hey Chicago, I've asked this before but couldn't get an answer. Does anybody know what the grates at the southern bottom of Northerly Island are for?

11.03.2025 20:55 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 1

this is pretty funny, from SONG OF SOLOMON

28.01.2025 17:35 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I stayed up late (for me) to finish Pynchon's VINELAND, which started out as one of the jokiest novels I'd ever read and ends implausibly movingly

28.01.2025 15:38 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was into this

14.01.2025 00:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Maybe the best lede to a book review ever written. De Quincey reviewing Vol. I of Gillman's 'Life of Coleridge,' in Blackwood's, 1845. Gillman had died before completing Vol. II and destroyed the papers associated with it. Coleridge felt that Gillman had dealt "almost maliciously" with his friend.

15.11.2024 17:45 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

until it ends there is no end

09.12.2023 17:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I cleaned my desk for the benefit of my prized glass tomato

09.12.2023 02:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0