Stop in for a cup of coffee
that looks bad !! Was it a bridge that lifts ?
No, just one of those metal bridges that are permanent... They have many of them to cross the Cal-Sag river/channel here...
Interesting that the Cal-Sag channel/river was dug by hand by the Irish here way back in the day... There are barges and boats going up and down it... However, they don't recommend going in the water or eating any fish out of there as it's as polluted as the Chicago River... They are doing a study at Argon National Laboratory here to see what they can do to clean it up and balance the pollutants in both rivers.... Argon National Laboratory was part of the Manhattan Project....
I guess that's one of the reason's that there is a large Irish population around here... 25% of the population of Palos Park is Irish, the next most popular population is 16%, so the Irish are the majority around here.. Nothing wrong with that, they are good people and great neighbors...
The old guy across the street that passed away last year was Irish, and his father and my grandpa used to garden together in his empty lot across the street... I would not be surprised if they spent alot of the time BS'ing and drinking beer.... Our families have been friends for 4 generations...
The lady next to me on the corner is also Irish... That's the one that I help with the yard maintenance and snow blowing...
There is also a big Gaelec center not far from here and they have a HUGE picnic every spring...
There are so many of them that they are known as the "South Side Irish"... They even have t-shirts that say that...