CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Waves were crashing along Chicago’s lakefront in Rogers Park Wednesday where the city has spent millions to stop erosion after other rough weather.
Bobby Baggett stopped by Howard Beach to see the waves spray as they crashed into concrete barriers. Originally from the Gulf Coast of Alabama, he and his wife are visiting and have an appreciation for rough waters.
“The waves are just as impressive. You just don’t get the distraction here like you do when you’re in a lowland area and the waves come across the beach and across the sand dunes and start tearing down people’s houses and things like that,” Baggett told WBBM Newsradio.
David lives in the neighborhood and is impressed with all the work the Park District does to maintain the beaches but doesn’t like the anti-erosion projects at Howard and Rogers Beaches.
“I think it went awry, my opinion. It went a little too far with the boulders,” he told WBBM Newsradio.
The city brought in rip rap to protect the shoreline but that leaves these areas without sand or ways for residents to get into the water.
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