Therapeutic beaches
Thank you for your Travel issue about beaches (April 15). Having grown up next to water, both in Chicago and Milwaukee, I have this inner need to live near water. I recently went through a medical ordeal where I would have to be still for hours, and my saving grace was being able to visualize the “best beach places” I could think of. The pictures in my mind of a special place in Florida, on a public beach, hidden between two very secluded areas, were enough to get me through some very trying times.
SANDRA A. BARD / Lincolnshire
ADD TO YOUR LIST of great beaches the long and lovely North Beach on Lake Michigan in Racine, Wis. It’s an absolutely beautiful, pristine gem on the Great Lakes, often overlooked. It also has a huge new playground, Kid’s Cove.
CAROL OLSON / Racine
YOUR ARTICLE ON Midwest beaches said Oval Beach in Saugatuck has lifeguards. Sorry to say, but for the first time Oval Beach will not be a guarded beach this summer. The city has decided to eliminate the lifeguards and increase the admission fee for visitors. As a summer resident, I’m very dismayed at the city’s decision to eliminate the guards.
VICKIE BISCHOFF / Naperville
Hooray for Harold’s
Rick Kogan’s column about Harold’s Chicken Shack (Sidewalks, April 15), really took me back. I went to the original shack, on 47th Street, for lunch several days a week. I got to be friends with Harold and really enjoyed his companyA few years later, “urban removal” moved in and Harold got caught by the wreckers. I had moved to Hyde Park Boulevard, and I was glad that he got a place on 53rd and South Kenwood so I could still enjoy the best chicken in the world.
J. WILLIAM HALFPENNY / Westmont
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