# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Yachtapalooza Seminar: The Harrowing History of Chicago’s Lakefront, Presented by Geoffrey Baer
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: SEMINAR DESCRIPTION:
Chicago’s lakefront has been at the center of many battles (both legal and literal) over the two centuries since non-native settlers arrived. And the result is a waterfront that has been continually re-shaped.  In this talk Geoffrey Baer starts at the end of the last ice age when the lake was much bigger than it is today, and flashes forward to the soldiers who inadvertently added land to the lakefront by building a pier, the backroom deal that allowed a railroad to run right up the lakefront, the pitched legal fight to preserve the lakefront for the people, the arrival of a swindler who claimed a piece of lakefront land for himself, the sweeping Burnham Plan that gave us a vast lakefront park system and our spectacular harbors and much, much more.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/whiting/yachtapalooza-seminar-the-harrowing-history-of-chicago’s-lakefront-presented-by-geoffrey-baer/200029755559212
- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 170

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Whiting
- **state**: IN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3434 E 95th St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60617
- **lat**: 41.72311
- **long**: -87.54035
- **full address**: 3434 E 95th St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60617, 3434 E 95th St, Chicago, IL 60617-5101, United States, Whiting

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Yachtapalooza Seminar: The Harrowing History of Chicago’s Lakefront, Presented by Geoffrey Baer being held?
  - **A:** Yachtapalooza Seminar: The Harrowing History of Chicago’s Lakefront, Presented by Geoffrey Baer takes place on Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 am to Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm at 3434 E 95th St, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60617, 3434 E 95th St, Chicago, IL 60617-5101, United States, Whiting.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Yachtapalooza Seminar: The Harrowing History of Chicago’s Lakefront, Presented by Geoffrey Baer?
  - **A:** Yachtapalooza Seminar: The Harrowing History of Chicago’s Lakefront, Presented by Geoffrey Baer is organized by Crowley's Yacht Yard Lakeside.

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