North Avenue Beach

This guide to North Avenue Beach in Chicago follows a stranded motorboat, Sea No Evil, dug hard into the sand near the beach's ocean-liner-shaped house. You'll hear owner Lenny Klinger describe watching strangers dig for hours, and the account of the evening it set out from Diversey Harbor with friends aboard before Lake Michigan turned rough. A dozen volunteers who had never met Klinger later showed up to help, paying for a tow and digging trenches by hand. Listen for how the Coast Guard's rescue and the lake's own currents decided where the boat ended up.