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Amenities
Buildign Amenities
- • Outdoor pool
- • Expansive sundeck with great views
- • 25,000 sq. ft. fitness center level with
- • membership included
- • Resident library with fireplace
- • Click! Café. Coffee. Computer. Chat.
- • Club room with kitchen
- • High-tech business center
- • Conference room
- • On-site Whole Foods Market
- • Two blocks to Michigan Avenue
- • Walk to CTA subway
- • Steps from fine dining, shopping and nightlife
- Apartment:
- Queen Size Beds (1)
- rollaway bed available for $25/night
- iron + ironing board
- TV & Cable in Living Room, 1 TV in master bedroom
- Wireless Internet
- Washer/Dryer (we don't proved detergent),
- We don't provide phone service in any of our vacation
Apartment
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Miscellaneous
- George Wellington “Cap” Streeter was a jack-of-all-trades who, in 1886, purchased a boat, named it the Reutan, and took it for a test run on Lake Michigan during a storm. Cap and his wife, who was also aboard, ended up on a sandbar 450 feet east of Mi
- At this time, only 15 years after the Great Chicago Fire, the city of Chicago was in the midst of rebuilding. Cap Streeter told several contractors that they could use his sandbar as a dump for a small fee, and soon the sandbar extended the shoreline by 1
- Cap found that Chicago (and Illinois) ended at the original shoreline, and thus his sandbar was not considered to be a part of either. He named it the “District of Lake Michigan” and claimed full rights to this land.
- At this point, Cap began selling small parts of his land and thus a shantytown was born on the sandbar. Cap built a house on the land amidst the squalor. Before long, some of Chicago’s wealthier businessmen petitioned to have Cap and the shantytown resi
- After several ensuing battles over ownership of the land, Cap was arrested for an unrelated, minor offense. During this time, his home was burned down and he finally lost control of the land. He died in 1921.
- The land where the sandbar originated is now some of Chicago’s most expensive real estate.