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Indiana Dunes National Park: Chicago Tonight, Final Spreads and Thoughts

Posted on March 14, 2019, 9:42 pm, by QT Luong, under Books, Esthetics.
Chicago Tonight I was honored that WTTW, the Chicago area’s PBS affiliate which is one of the most-watched public television stations in the country, aired a story about my visit to the Indiana Dunes, produced by multiple Emmy-winning Jay Shefsky. The four-minute Chicago Tonight piece, which is very accurate, took about two hours to film […]
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Indiana Dunes: National Park Diversity Beyond the Lakeshore

Posted on March 7, 2019, 9:04 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Indiana Dunes National Park ranks a respectable 13th of all the 61 national parks by number of visits (averaged over the decade 2008-2017). Most of those visits last a few hours: to be precise, according to NPS statistics, an average of 3h 15 min – the 8th shortest. Those hours are in general spent at […]
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Indiana Dunes National Park: Impressions from the Shore

Posted on February 28, 2019, 12:47 pm, by QT Luong, under Locations.
Congress redesignated Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as Indiana Dunes National Park, our 61st, on Friday, February 15. I was initially hoping the reach the park before sunset on Monday, but Chicago International Airport and the park are located on opposite sides of Chicago, and I had landed just in time for rush hour. The Shore […]
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Indiana Dunes National Park Comes at Challenging Time

Posted on February 20, 2019, 8:00 am, by QT Luong, under Books.
One of the consequences of the government shutdown is that we just got Indiana Dunes National Park, our 61th National Park. Let me explain a bit. In the 115th Congress, the Indiana congressional delegation pushed hard for the change of designation for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which enjoyed wide local support except for the lone […]
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