Fox River Valley and Chain O'Lakes with Geoffrey Baer

[@dantruitt1138]

Great video. I love all of these Chicago area vids by Baer. I was born in Geneva hospital and grew up in West Chicago and I probably learned 100 interesting facts about these towns on the Fox that I often visited growing up. Now if someone from WTTW would only upload a higher resolution version that does Baer's excellent work justice...

[@fjg9657]

Love these documentaries and agree about the resolution.,

[@Bob-te3le]

They're the best I've seen about Chicagoland. I love my favorite city.

[@christinecollins6648]

Lived in NYC for a decade, love the city. Surprisingly Chicago area history in this series is more fun and interesting

[@davidsheffield3551]

i grew up in wayne in the1950-1964.great memories. thank you.

[@anitahamlin2411]

I was part of the problem in the 80's with a jet boat running up and down the chain of lakes. Loved Blarney's Island!

[@joyful_tanya]

I have lived in the Fox Valley since 1979. I graduated highschool from St Charles HS (now East) in 1984. I graduated from Elgin Community College's nursing program in the 1990s. My husband and I were married in Wayne in 2003. Now retired/disabled, my husband and I live in McHenry. I took local history in high school, but I didn't know some of this! Thank you. Very interesting.

[@pupawupagus]

i’ve often heard EEC’s nursing program is amazing!! i hope it did amazing things for your life 🥰 and for your patients too ofc

[@pupawupagus]

i’ve often heard EEC’s nursing program is amazing!! i hope it did amazing things for your life 🥰 and for your patients too ofc

[@joyful_tanya]

@@pupawupagus thank you! I graduated top of my class and practiced for 20 years. I had gone back to school as an adult, so I didn't get as many years as younger nurses. I'm retraining as an end of life doula in my retirement! 🥰 I just can't stop serving!

[@pupawupagus]

@@joyful_tanya that is an amazing, selfless vocation!! people need lots more Tanyas ❤️❤️ what a great, big heart you have

[@joyful_tanya]

@@pupawupagus thank you so much. 😭 That's so sweet of you.

[@johnrutkowski4166]

Contents 0:00 Funding and Intro 3:20 Chain O Lakes 16:54 McHenry 20:37 Fox River Grove 24:18 Cary 27:34 Algonquin 30:00 Carpentersville 33:03 West Dundee 34:50 East Dundee 38:10 Elgin 53:34 South Elgin 57:04 Wayne 58:57 Bartlett 1:00:22 Saint Charles 1:22:38 Geneva 1:32:28 Batavia 1:42:58 North Aurora 1:43:53 Aurora 2:01:12 Plano (Farnsworth House)

[@Spoonz.-.]

I appreciate this comment, I recently moved into Aurora and I’m currently walking along the river while listening to this

[@pupawupagus]

i grew up in palatine then lived in algonquin for many years as an adult. y’all picked the same places i would have to represent the area. my mom dragged us to Haegers all the damn time. we hated it but now i wish i could go back! except santa’s village bc it creeps me out. i hated driving past its corpse for years to get to the highway. we went all the time as kids in the 70s/early 80s. what a weird place

[@arthurmanderson4892]

My grandparents used to take me and my sister to Santa's Village in the 70's. Grandparents had a house in Buffalo Grove.

[@ag4allgood]

A really fantastic historic overview of the Fox River area ! Appreciate your hard work going back so far into history ! TY so much Geoffrey ! Amazing the history of these places you drive / bike thru everyday.

[@domcizek]

GOOD VIDEO, BEEN ALL THRU THESE PLACES MANY TIMES, WHEN I LIVED IN CHICAGO PROPER

[@denali9449]

Blarney Island sure has grown up. We would stop there in the early 60's after a morning's fishing up at Channel Lake. Place was held together with spit and glue, it sat on crooked pilings and if I recall correctly, the toilet was a hole in the floor. But the beer was cold and what more could you ask for?

[@mattswaggy7804]

The 16 inch barn collapsed the year after this video came out. It’s across the interstate from where my family friend Maureen lives.

[@Mallaien]

My Grandparents were officers in the coast guard auxiliary, on the chain of lakes during the 1970's

[@1927su]

I partied at Blarneys Island in 1981, it seemed smaller then what I’m seeing now. Fun times !

[@peteklein630]

Geoff - I LOVE your video presentations!

[@cocoaorange1]

I adore his videos. You learn so much.

[@cheryllakin6736]

Spent countless hours on the Ravenswood and Howard lines from 1972 to 1995.

[@89128]

In the 1980s I spoke with an elderly woman whose father was a DuPage County pioneer, and a direct descendant of one of Ben Franklin's brothers. She told me that as a young girl she would take Army Trail Road all the way to downtown Chicago. That portion of the road is now Randolph Street. She also told me of watching drovers drive cattle across the Des Plaines River on their way to the stock yards. It's a shame so much oral history is lost generation by generation. Years after the fact I found out that neighbors two doors down from us in Chicago were childhood friends of the Wright Brothers. Cousins saw numerous photos of them together in their house.

[@lindadavidson7328]

Santa’s village was my birthday spot as a child

[@pupawupagus]

you and every northwest suburb kid ❤️! it was our family’s “you’ll get great america when we have ten thousand extra dollars ok” destination 😊 got to take my kid there while it was still fully operational. I AM NOW ALL SENTIMENTAL ABOUT SANTAS VILLAGE did i get drunk and forget i did?

[@davidross5169]

I had relatives that worked,at the watch factory.my nephew worked at Santa's village ,,shoped at medowdale shopping center,I had several relatives that lived a around ,Hampshire, ill.Marengo ill.Genoa ill .decalb,ill I worked and lived down there for a while. Lived there when I was married. At 20 years young.

[@frankpeletz1818]

My sister worked at Elgin watch and married into one of the big families that are around Hampshire.

[@frankpeletz1818]

I was one of the Boy Scouts at Camp Big Timber for the Hiawatha pageant many summers, I also worked in the former bolt works building on the sw side of the Fox in old Cville,later for the school district and have walked around the old race track 50 years ago. Too bad he didn't mention the D Hill nursey that the mall replaced or Meadowdale for having one of the first shopping centers and it had a ice skating ring.

[@CJinsoo]

Brilliant!

[@johnrutkowski4166]

Shall I expect the Western Suburbs to be uploaded soon?

[@dantruitt1138]

You kind find that on WTTW's site. Still at 240p resolution, I'm afraid.

[@johnrutkowski4166]

@@dantruitt1138 So are the other tours, but we can’t comment the tours there. Either way, the Western Suburbs has more content on the DVD version.

[@Dkrpan59]

I hate watching this video it makes me homesick I’m from Waukegan which sucks but the chain of lakes was fun

[@cricky0692]

WHEN IS THIS VIDEO FROM PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW !

[@rocco.mbb.zoccoli]

When was this made?

[@SocietyMan]

2006

[@clort123]

Wow 240p?? So so so disappointed right now

[@girldaddividendinvestor]

Elgin Academy alum. Whoop. Whoop.😂😂😂

[@briansieve]

God that Blarney Island looks like mayonnaise hell

[@bigeasy2595]

please fund this channel so they can replace the potato they use too record this

[@pupawupagus]

lol!

[@dantiberi3141]

Why are these getting uploaded at such atrociously low image quality? The content is phenomenal but it's 2021 and you're uploading videos in 240p. This is the case with all of your recent uploads from Geoffrey's series.

[@AL_145]

My dude this vid is from 2006 you were probably like 4 when this was filmed. You ever look at a youtube video from 2009 and wonder why it looks like its from 1989?

[@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549]

@@AL_145 My dude just doesn't get it, Alex. He's 15 years old and thinks everything was filmed in HD

[@pupawupagus]

it’s ~*FREE*~ shut up and watch

[@CuriouslyBored]

Aurora is full of Latinos, now-- but you wouldn't know it via this guy.

[@linkly9272]

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