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Article: Seeing Chicago by taxi, with a Venetian twist.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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It's a standard tourist activity in Chicago: You descend from Michigan Avenue to the quay along the Chicago River, board a tour boat and glide along, listening to a guide on a loudspeaker talk up the architecture and rib the poor tourists from Wisconsin. You get a pleasant, breezy introduction to the heart of the city. But for a more intimate, independent and easygoing waterborne view, there's a do-it-yourself alternative: create your own tour by water taxi.
From late spring through fall, water taxis ply the river and venture out into Lake Michigan. They operate like buses, following scheduled routes that take you to standard tourist stops such as the Willis ...