Chicago Lakefront Vision Ride - Sunday, June 5 - Noon

Burnham and Ward LIVE!

Chicago Lakefront Vision Ride

Sunday, June 5, 2005
Noon - Daley Plaza
(Washington & Clark)

A free, leisurely 2 hour bike ride exploring the storied history and
hopeful future of Chicago's car-free lakefront. Hosted by Chicago's
preeminent Daniel Burnham and Montgomery Ward impersonators performing
insurgent historical reenactments.

More info at http://www.ForeverFreeandClear.org


"The lakefront by right belongs to the people. It affords their one,
great unobstructed view stretching way into the horizon, where water and
clouds seem to meet. No mountains or high hills enable us to look over
broad expanses of the earth's surface. And perforce we must come even to
the margins of the lake for such surveys of nature. These views of a
broad expanse are helpful allies to mind and body. They beget calm
thoughts and feelings, and afford escape from the petty things of life.
Mere breadth of view however, is not all the lake is living water ever
in motion, and ever changing in color and in the form of its waves.
Across its surface comes the broad pathway of light made by the rising
sun. It mirrors the ever-changing forms of the clouds. It's illumined by
the glow of the evening sky. Its colors vary the shadows that play upon
it. In its every aspect it is a living thing. Delighting man's eye,
refreshing his spirit. Not a foot of its shores should be appropriated
by individuals to the exclusion of the people. On the contrary,
everything possible should be done to enhance its attractiveness and to
develop its natural beauties, thus fitting it for the part it has to
play in the life of the whole city. It should be made so alluring that
it will become the fixed habit of the people to seek its restful
presence at every opportunity." --Daniel Burnham