A cold sunrise over Lake Michigan. The winter days are beginning to get noticeably longer, and sunrise is happening earlier.
The ice covered pier out to the navigational becon is illuminated by the early morning light.
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Lake Michigan Rescue Equipment Act into law in 2022 following a series of drownings in Lake Michigan. The red post on the left of the photo contains an emergency flotation life bouy ring.
The act requires private and government-owned piers and drop-off points to have public rescue equipment like flotation devices, and local governments have to post warnings in high-incident areas and standardize reporting of drownings to the Illinois Department of Public Health.
At Foster Beach in Chicago, Illinois. This beach is an easy walk from my son's place
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