North Shore Channel

 This body of water is pretty mysterious and awkwardly located. The channel

 begins at Wilmette Harbor in front of the Baha'i Temple and runs along

 McCormick Boulevard through Evanston and merges into the Chicago River.

 I've biked through the statue park on McCormick Boulevard a bunch

 of times and by what I can deduce from the excess of trees and a barbed

 wire fence lining the channel is that there probably isn't any practical purpose

 to it beyond it being a way to transport sewage. 

I was biking back from getting a snickerdoodle at a bakery on

 Central Street and I was crossing over the channel and the dense dark

 trees and the sawdust sky looked worthy of being photographed.

Evanston

Taken in September 2011