{"id":2455,"date":"2021-10-24T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2021-10-24T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:03:19","slug":"a-birds-eye-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"A Bird&#8217;s Eye View&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;of the Illinois River Waterway.  The first of the inland rivers we are traveling is known as the Illinois River Waterway.\u00a0\u00a0This section of the journey is comprised of the Chicago River, the Chicago Sanitary &amp; Ship Canal, the Des Plaines River and the Illinois River.\u00a0\u00a0We will have traveled 285 nautical miles (327 statutory miles or 526 kilometers to reach the Upper Mississippi River from Chicago.\u00a0\u00a0And as you can see, this vista could not be more different than downtown Chicago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Photo_1080296219_DJI_795_jpg_5576336_0_20211017175446_photo_original-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/svaurora.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Photo_1080296219_DJI_795_jpg_5576336_0_20211017175446_photo_original-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, 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