Wrigleyville welcomes a new Billy Goat Tavern to the neighborhood
CHICAGO — Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat has just opened, its wall covered with dozens
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CHICAGO — Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat has just opened, its wall covered with dozens
CHICAGO — Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat has just opened, its wall covered with dozens
CHICAGO — Within a few steps of the place where the curse of the Billy Goat was born, a new Billy Goat has just opened, its wall covered with dozens
He rose from barking at passers-by on Michigan Avenue to take a boat ride, first to deckhand and ultimately a long career piloting sightseeing and architecture cruises.
Robert Borgstrom spent most of his life on the Chicago River as owner and one of the captains of the Wendella sightseeing boats. He took the last of his thousands of trips on that river on June 2, 2020, and as he stood on the deck of the fleet’s newest boat and watched the city pass by, he said, “Fifty, 60 years ago, this was an ugly, filthy river and 20 years ago it wasn’t much better. I ...