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12th Street Beach
12th Street Beach, on the Museum Campus's Northerly Island peninsula, offers one of the most scenic vantage points on the entire Chicago lakefront, with direct views of the downtown skyline framed alongside Soldier Field and the city's cluster of major lakefront museums. Its position within Northerly Island, a former airport turned nature park following the controversial 2003 demolition of Meigs Field, gives the beach access to restored prairie habitat and walking trails immediately adjacent to the sand, a genuinely different surrounding landscape than Chicago's more purely urban beaches. The beach's relatively small size and less commercially developed surroundings, compared to the bar-and-restaurant scene at North Avenue Beach, give it a quieter, more scenic character specifically suited to skyline photography and casual sunbathing over an active social beach scene. For a Chicago beaches list, 12th Street Beach is the essential "the skyline photo op" entry — a Museum Campus-adjacent beach on a former airport turned nature park, offering one of the most classically photographed views of Chicago's downtown skyline.
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North Avenue Beach
North Avenue Beach, anchored by its distinctive steamship-shaped beach house built in 2000, is Chicago's most popular and heavily used Lake Michigan beach, drawing dense summer crowds for volleyball, swimming, and its long-running outdoor bar and restaurant scene right on the sand. Its dense concentration of public volleyball courts has made it one of the most significant beach volleyball hubs in the Midwest, hosting regular tournaments and drawing a dedicated local playing community throughout the summer months. The beach's position along the Lakefront Trail, Chicago's roughly 18-mile multi-use path running the length of the city's Lake Michigan shoreline, makes it a constant stop for cyclists and runners passing through, adding steady foot and bike traffic beyond just beachgoers. For a Chicago beaches list, North Avenue Beach is the essential "the main event" entry — a steamship-shaped beach house anchoring the city's busiest and most volleyball-dense stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline.
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