Photo - Port of Illinois

[Mike Lamb]

I always wanted to pull off the highway on Chicago's SE side and take a pic of those silos and ships off to the east so I did.

The port security made me shoot through the fence.

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[kurt]

Did you ever get in around the 101st St. Bridge in all that post-apocalyptic looking industrial zone? There's a lot of cool stuff down there.

Cool shot.

[Mike Lamb]

No, but thanks. It's near by. I'll give it a look.

[kurt]

Yeah, it's like an aging museum of the industrial age that nobody goes to anymore.

I find it fascinating.

[Jerry Simon]

Yeah, it's like an aging museum of the industrial age that nobody goes to anymore.

I find it fascinating.

I grew up on the south side. Used to drive east on 95th street 'till it ended at the water. It was fascinating (especially after a few Ballantines and a high school girl).

[kurt]

Yeah, exactly.

East on 95th, hang a right anywhere around the river, weave down into all that burnt out industrial stuff.

Lotta rust in that part of town.

[Richard Moore]

I get a kick out of "flying" around the country with Google Earth, so I thought I would try to find Mike's old ship. Is this the right area?

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[Mike Lamb]

That is cool, Richard. It's at about 125th St.

I'm the X. You can see the security shack -yellow. It could be the same ship.

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[John Kogel]

That is cool, Richard. It's at about 125th St.

I'm the X. You can see the security shack -yellow. It could be the same ship.

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Or maybe it was the ghost of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

The way it's plowing through the shrubbery, it could be a ghost ship, eh?