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Gary LaPook wrote:
"Chicago is as flat as a  pancake because the land used to be the
bottom of  Lake Chicago.  "

Which reminds me of something funny about Chicago...

In Lincoln  Park on Chicago's north side, there are a couple of small hills
(about 10 feet  and 30 feet high). If you make the difficult ascent up one of
them, pausing  every now and then to acclimate yourself to the decreased
oxygen, at the very  summit you will find a marker, surrounded by drifting snow even
in the middle of  summer , that explains in geological terms exactly WHY
there is a hill  there. A hill needs an explanatory marker?? Now that's flat!

For people  practicing sextant sights, a flat city has one interesting
advantage. Rows of  streetlights extend straight as an arrow into the distance, and
if you extend  them visually they can indicate the location of the horizon to
within a few  minutes of arc.

-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N  72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars

   

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