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The beauty of Lake Michigan is clear but it’s danger is murky.
Dr. Michelle Macy is a emergency medicine physician at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago.
“When we think about the beaches along our Chicago coastline and up into the North Shore, we’ve got a lot of different jetties and break walls that are sticking out,” she said.
The structures – combined with wind — can stir up currents that pull swimmers out unexpectedly.
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“When the winds are coming into the lake from the East, we get big waves and that can change the currents. But when the wind’s coming from the West people can get into trouble,” she said. “When they …