Chicago Highland pictures

[Bill Seitz]

The Highlands is more notable for it's skyline views of about twenty suburban water towers!  Snark aside it is worth a visit if you're in town and have played the 20 or so courses that are superior to it. Eight or so very good holes do not a great golf course make.

Well, what I didn't mention is that I needed to be at the proper angle to take that picture, so that I wouldn't get the water tower on my right and the suburban office buildings to my left.   That said, on a clear day, if you can block those things out, it's a nice view of downtown.

Tim, I haven't played Harborside in a few years, but I seem to remember the *ahem* additional skyline features being a bit more prevalent there.  At Highlands, it feels like it's a hundred feet or more higher elevation as well.

[Tim_Cronin]

The Highlands is more notable for it's skyline views of about twenty suburban water towers!  Snark aside it is worth a visit if you're in town and have played the 20 or so courses that are superior to it. Eight or so very good holes do not a great golf course make.

Well, what I didn't mention is that I needed to be at the proper angle to take that picture, so that I wouldn't get the water tower on my right and the suburban office buildings to my left.   That said, on a clear day, if you can block those things out, it's a nice view of downtown.

Tim, I haven't played Harborside in a few years, but I seem to remember the *ahem* additional skyline features being a bit more prevalent there.  At Highlands, it feels like it's a hundred feet or more higher elevation as well.

Bill, if you mean the smokestacks, those are long gone. Of course, there are still such Sout' Side landmarks as the Pullman tower (almost lost in a fire) and the Steel Bridge. I'm thinking much of Harborside is about 40 feet above the neighborhood.